Word: conways
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will coach the underdog today. Ferd Nadherny, who tore the Harvard line to shreds in 1946 and 1947, has been out most of the season; guard Vic Frank has had half a dozen minor injuries; all the centers have been injured and even today only one, Captain Bill Conway, is in top shape...
...Conway, and if you don't do better you'll be the first Conway I ever saw sitting on the bench...
That would be calamitous. For 15 years at University School, a private prep school in a Cleveland suburb, the team had never been without a Conway, and every Conway had been a star. Tommy, 15, felt ashamed of himself. If he flopped, what would he say to his nine brothers...
With 13 kids (only two of them girls), Timothy Conway is in the right business -retail food and groceries. Says he: "I'm in favor of feeding 'em plenty." A 15-lb. roast on Sunday is the usual thing, and there are 35-lb. turkeys at Thanksgiving. The Conway home is equipped with restaurant-size utensils, and when the kids were younger, the staggering meals were staggered: pre-school-age kids ate dinner in the kitchen at 6; elementary-school-agers in the breakfast room at 6:30, and the big kids with dad and mother...
Once, when an internal revenue man came around to question him, suspicious of the number of exemptions he claimed, Papa Conway discovered that he had forgotten one; instead of paying more, he got a credit...