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...Oien, 59, was hopping his single-engine Cessna from Portland, Ore., to San Francisco last March 11 when he crashed. Remarkably, no one was killed: Oien was cut up, an arm and some ribs broken; his wife, Phyllis, 44, had a broken arm and ankle, and his stepdaughter, Carla Corbus, 15, was badly bruised. They were stranded 4,500 feet up, in northern California's Trinity Mountains. Luckily, Phyllis, a Northwestern University graduate, was a trained nurse, and Oien, a rough, resourceful logger who had worked his way up to ownership of a Portland hotel, was an experienced outdoorsman...
...that Bettor Hill is an earnest as well as a facetious purist; 2) that he, possessor of a vast football library, was sincere in his devious criticism of TIME's use of "All-America" and "All-American"; 3) that though correct in the instance he cited (calling Bill Corbus "Stanford's All-American guard"-TIME, Nov. 20), TIME has in other instances erred in the use of "All-American"; 4) that at least one TIME-reader (C. H. McWilliams of Wilmington, Ohio) perceived Purist Hill's concealed point. For purity's sake, therefore, TIME acknowledges...
Guards: William Corbus (Stanford) and Aaron Rosenberg (Southern Cali- fornia...
...Bill Corbus is a grand football player and he should be named on Grantland Rice's All America football team again this year...
...betting letter, Bettor Hill said: "Your muchly touted Bill Corbus TIME entitled 'Stanford's All-American guard' never was named for any position on Grantland Rice's All-American, much less for the position of right guard." In the plain meaning of this sentence, Bettor Hill was wrong. Bill Corbus was an "All-American guard" on Grantland Rice's 1932 team. Now Bettor Hill says he meant that TIME'S error lay not in placing Bill Corbus but in using the phrase "All-American." Even granting that this is what he meant, Bettor Hill...