Word: coaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That summer Humphrey got to thinking: the trouble with liberal politics in Minnesota was that Democrats and Farmer-Laborites fought each other instead of the Republicans. He took a day coach to Washington, sold Democratic national headquarters on his plan for fusing the two parties, returned home and presided at the wedding...
There was a near riot of pro-Conzelmen Washington students in 1940 when Jimmy resigned under alumni pressure. Last week (under no pressure) Jimmy Conzel-man resigned as coach of one of the most successful teams in pro football, the Chicago Cardinals. He was tired of traveling, and, at 50, he was moving back home to St. Louis to work full time at his job as an account executive for the D'Arcy Advertising Co. He also wanted to settle down to what he called "normal family life...
...good backfield man ("most valuable" player in the National pro league in 1928), slim Jimmy put on a mountain of weight as a coach, and with it a fat reputation as a football man who could talk without lacing his brows into a gridiron scowl. Once when he was Cardinal coach, he limped to his feet at a sport luncheon explaining that he was bothered by 1) an old knee injury, 2) a shot of morphine to quiet the knee, 3) a double Daiquiri to quiet the morphine. His stories usually pictured his own rampaging footballers (among them Marshall Goldberg...
Money Savers. To compete with railroads, airlines have also cut prices as much as 25% on "excursion," "tourist," and "family fare" rates. For two months Capital Airlines has flown an experimental nighttime "coach" service between New York and Chicago in DC-48, without meals, pillows, blankets, extra stewardesses of other costly incidentals. The fare: $29.60 (v. $44.10 on regular flights, and rail coach fare of $27.30). With passenger loads up to a good average of 77% of capacity, the coach planes so far have netted Capital a good profit. Similar coach services were being planned or flown by TWA (between...
...Smith justified his choice as a starter by Coach Bill Barclay, sharing Harvard scoring honors (9 points) with John Rockwell. But the work of the pair went by the boards in the course of the evening, as Columbia, paced by Norm Skinner with 23 points, grabbed an early lead and was never headed...