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"Imagine, a President." By the time he was 15, Ernie Davis stood 6 ft. tall and weighed 175 Ibs. He was living in Elmira, N.Y., with his mother, and he won eleven letters at Elmira Free Academy. "About 30" colleges offered him football scholarships. But he chose Syracuse-just 90...
In his three seasons, Ernie Davis gained 2,386 yds. (averaging 6.6 yds. per carry) and scored 220 points-breaking alltime Syracuse records that had been set by the Cleveland Browns' great Jimmy Brown. He was the first Negro ever to win the Heisman Trophy as the best college...
"I Would Lie There." One day last July Davis woke up with swollen glands in his neck and was ordered to an Evanston, Ill., hospital for a checkup. He had leukemia (cancer of the blood), but doctors did not tell him until October. The disease was then in a "perfect...
The perfect remission was only temporary-as doctors well knew and Davis apparently never suspected. To get himself in shape, Ernie ran plays in practice with the Browns last fall and played winter basketball with the Browns' team. Then one day last week, he noticed new glandular swelling and...
She is now Margaret Rutherford, Ltd., having arrived rather late in life at the knowledge that there is one way to skin a tax cat. Endearingly, she has just been paying through the nose all these years, and "we are only, but only, just emerging," she notes, "in a rather...