Word: corbus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fail to print, or advise me, the sequel to Dean Hill's wager re Corbus (Letters. TIME, Dec. 11). I want to know if he pays the bill for 23 TIME subscriptions and what his Comments are, unexpurgated...
...American Corbus...
Suggest your getting out the little used, long neck oil can and greasing the old, rusty cogs, for again smug, red-faced TIME is wrong. 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...
TIME erred in calling Stanford's dark-haired Corbus "blond," but let Reader Hill mend his talk. Stanford's Corbus was named right guard on Grantland Rice's 1932 All-American team, as Grantland Rice's Manhattan office (telephone: Mohawk 4-7500) will confirm. To the Princeton freshman team and its small, twinkling Coach Johnny Gorman (the quarterback who, in the 1922 Princeton-Chicago game, called for and caught a historic forward pass in the shadow of his own goal) 23 subscriptions to TIME. To Reader Hill, the bill...
...name of Corbus already was great at Stanford and at Vallejo (Calif.) High School which last year re-christened its gridiron Corbus Field for the alumnus whose cleated shoes had honored it. When he entered Stanford in 1930 Bill Corbus, big, blond and handsome, had to submit to the nickname "Baby Face." With even less relish he heard sportwriters call him "Baby Faced Assassin." He achieved scholastic standing (in economics) far above average. Last year he was elected president of the student body, was named right guard on Grantland Rice's All-American. Quiet, unassuming, no chesty campus hero...