Word: dame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...because of that wonderful Lattner cover . . . Surely there's a lot to argue about concerning commercialized athletics in our schools. But most of us can safely agree that if amateur sports must be a big business, then by all means let's have it a la Notre Dame...
...come to no other conclusion than that you deliberately made your Notre Dame football hero cover picture your corniest in years, filled the story with a collection to end all collections of the humdrum idiocies of professional sports, spicing it with the phony baloney, barstool oratory, synthetic manliness, and parroting of "statistics" and "history" by the sports...
...Your story . . . is excellent, primarily because it captures some of the spirit that permeates the campus and student body. Notre Dame has top-drawer material, but so do many other schools; this is one of the few times I have seen it acknowledged in a publication of general circulation that Notre Dame's winning ways are at least partly attributable to an "intangible spirit that seems to make super-players out of ordinary mortals like Johnny Lattner...
...week's foregone conclusion: Notre Dame's easy conquest of North Carolina, 34-14, leaving the Irish still the No. 1 U.S. team...
...will tell his wife. The night of the payoff the blonde has a run-in with two other men-her husband (John Verros) and the head researcher of the writer's program (Edward G. Robinson), another of the many beaux to her string. Early next morning the dame is found dead...