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...former Ohio State halfback, head coach at Iowa State (1973 to 1978) and a Hayes assistant for six years, Bruce relished the challenge of replacing his mentor. "It's a dream come true," he said. Though he is laboring almost literally in Hayes' shadow-the former coach, now writing a book, has an office in a building down the block from Bruce's headquarters-Bruce has retained just two of Hayes' eight assistants and has overhauled Ohio State's antique offensive tactics. When he was at Iowa State, his teams were noted for passing...
...love with them. It has to be played as a game." Love, of course, is never a game, especially in a December-May romance where the older party keeps one eye on the clock and the younger does not have to. In addition, real suspicions are too easily come...
Instincts and circumstances have allowed Pritchett to come to eminence in his own way and in his own time. He was born in Ipswich in 1900, son of a businessman who had big ideas and often bigger debts. The first volume of Pritchett's autobiography is called A Cab at the Door because the family moved a lot. He developed a taste for reading and skepticism but when he failed a scholarship exam, his formal education ended. It was a disguised blessing: "If I had passed I would have stayed at school until I was eighteen and would surely...
When Winston Churchill married Clementine Hozier in 1908, more than 1,000 guests jammed St. Margaret's, Westminster, in London. It was the marriage of the season, indeed for 57 seasons to come. Clementine's Edwardian dignity proved to be the perfect foil for her husband's tempestuous brilliance. She played her part so well that Oxford University, in 1946, awarded her an honorary degree as the "Soul of Persuasion, Guardian Angel of our country's guardian...
These words of novice wisdom come from Television Celebrity Phyllis George. She picked up her insights working in her husband John Y. Brown's campaign for the governorship of Kentucky. Now that the national presidential campaigns are lurching out of various closets and back rooms, everybody will get a chance to sample and even overdose on that admixture of reality and stagecraft that politics has become...