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Handicapped by a lack of depth and experience, the varsity defense was the lone bright spot of the tour. Tom Crump, Jim Herscot, and John Baldwin turned in top defensive performances. Dick MacKinnon, varsity goalie, also made an impressive showing...
With an average weight of 195 pounds, the Adams line stars Damon Mezzacappa, Rob Richardson, Jim Dillard, and Dick Weller. Backfield standouts, so far, have been Tom Crump, Kent Campbell, and Charles Currier...
Died. Joseph Patrick ("Holy Joe") Boyle, 65, bland, blue-eyed longtime ward heeler for Memphis' E. H. ("Boss") Crump, who became police commissioner in 1940, gave the old steamboat town the cold-water blues by kicking out its gamblers, shutting down its bordellos; after a stroke; in Memphis...
...Gotcha. His ground well prepared in advance, Subcommittee Counsel William E. Gerber of Memphis, a tough-looking, cigar-chewing product of the Crump machine, started digging for the kind of pay dirt that makes headlines. Presenting President C. Melvin Sharpe of the District board of education with a stack of papers and statistics he had not had a chance to read, Gerber started firing leading questions (and got his witness so befuddled that he once stated he agreed with Gerber's "testimony"), finally pried out an admission that "present events indicate if we had been more moderate we would...
...important to his long-term ambitions was the advice given him early in that senatorial campaign by Nashville Tennessean Publisher Silliman Evans Jr. and Campaign Manager Charles Neese. They told him that if he could shake at least 500 hands a day until election time he could beat the Crump machine. He did-and won-and it has since been a slugabed campaign day that has not seen him pump at least 500 hands...