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Four years ago, when rangy Bobby Layne and trim Doak Walker played in the same backfield at Dallas' Highland Park high school, they were inseparable cronies. Then Bobby went to Texas and Doak to Southern Methodist. Last week, each an All-America candidate on an unbeaten team, the two pals sailed into one another before a full house in Dallas' Cotton Bowl. It was the game the Southwest had waited for all season...
...Doak Walker is the younger by a year and not quite so famous as pass-throwing Bobby. But on the opening kickoff, 175-lb. Quarterback Walker took the ball, shrewdly smuggled it to a teammate who galloped 84 yards, almost for a touchdown. A Walker pass and a short run made it, and Walker kicked the extra point. Bobby, who plays only on offense, wasn't even in the game...
...appointment as a $1-a-year special assistant to Herbert Hoover's Secretary of Labor William N. Doak (after a few months it turned into a $9,000 job). His sponsor: ex-Congressman Samuel Dickstein, now a New York City judge. Garsson's chief interest: high-salaried alien cinema stars who might be proved to be in the country illegally. Among his interests: Gilbert Roland, Anna Sten, the Marquis Henri de la Falaise, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Farrow...
January. In Stamford, Conn., an A.W.O.L. soldier, with a coat bearing the name Doak and a bracelet identifying him as Leslie Tripp, was reported to have admitted that though he had last married under the name Arthur R. Daly, he was actually John R. Schwartz...
...Since the office was created in 1913, Secretary Perkins had only three competitors: the late William B. Wilson, Pennsylvania's James J. ("Puddler Jim") Davis, the late William N. Doak...