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Evidently you have never watched Norm Van Brocklin of the Rams . . . You also refer to Don Paul as the dirtiest player in the league. How about changing this title to the roughest player, since this does not carry the connotation of one who plays outside the rules, which Don does...
...Keep Your Teeth. The Lions take just about as much as they dish out. And most of them agree that Don Paul (6 ft. 1 in., 225 Ibs.), captain of the Los Angeles Rams and a rib-cracking linebacker of the old school, is the dirtiest player in the league. Pro football being what it is, Paul takes this judgment for what it is meant to be-sheer flattery. "I play the Lions' kind of football," says Paul. "I don't hit with my fists, but when I hit a ball carrier and there is a split second...
...iron Bob. The campaign was one of the dirtiest in Australia's 53 years of responsible self-government. Menzies, an able politician with a handsome, Warren G. Harding look, was not on speaking terms with his principal opponent, Herbert ("Doc") Evatt, the stocky, ambitious leader of Australian Labor. Both are from New South Wales, the sons of country shopkeepers, born in the same year (1894) and both able lawyers. But Evatt accused Menzies of being the tool of "trusts and combines," and Menzies fought back with charges of "disgraceful, shameful, mercenary bidding for votes...
Four months after Novelist Edna Ferber called New York the filthiest city in the world and "a scab on the face of our country," Mrs. Wendell Willkie, widow of the 1940 presidential candidate, arrived from Europe with a new blast. "I think New York is the dirtiest city I've ever been in, and I love New York," said Edith Willkie. But she had the start of a solution: "I'm willing to go out with a broom and help clean up myself...
Missionaries & Priests. "To a missionary, the smell of dirt is agreeable. From this point of view, they themselves are the dirtiest swine of all. They have a horror of water. And those repulsive priests, when they question a child of seven in the confessional, it's they themselves who incite...