Word: doc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about the February day he drove through the snow until even his Model-T stuck, then walked ten miles to a rancher dying of pneumonia. On the way he lost his fountain pen. The next spring a road crew brought him the pen and explained: "This must be yours, Doc. Nobody else would have been up in that Williams Fork country in the winter...
...They make the rules and I'll have to abide by them," said Davis. His All-America sidekick on Army's unbeatable teams, "Doc" Blanchard, had made no attempt to get out: he seemed happy as a flying officer in the Air Force. Davis, who is in the infantry, now plans to serve a few more years in the Army, then try again to get out. Said he: "I won't play pro football if I've got to lay off for three more years Maybe I'll coach. I don't know right...
...answerer was in turn answered by the tabloid New York Daily News. As usual, the News's rejoinder was rough & ready: "Why, Doc, we thought you knew better than that. This agency . . . is already in session. It . . . consists of perhaps 60 million Americans who read the newspapers. . . . They evaluate and criticize the press, and they register their opinions in the most emphatic way possible, by buying papers they like and not buying papers they don't like...
...evil work went on. It was carried on by his underlings: Seymour Weiss, who once ran Huey's favorite barbershop and who handled the swag and kept no records; Abe Shushan, the dry-goods dealer who became president of the Levee Board; James Monroe ("Doc") Smith, president of the university; and big George Caldwell, superintendent of buildings at L.S.U. There were others, like Robert Maestri (rhymes with pastry), the conservation commissioner who later became New Orleans' mayor. And there was Earl, Huey's less talented brother. "I ain't like Huey," Earl admitted. "I gotta...
...type of player he wants, Brown sends his scouts to small colleges. From Nevada, he picked up Negro fullback Marion Motley, who is already being spoken of as a more devastating line-plunger than Army's "Doc" Blanchard. He collected a great pass-catching end (Mac Speedie) from the University of Utah, a great punter ("Horse" Gillom) from Massillon (Ohio) High School, the best place-kicker in the land (Lou Groza), who never played varsity at any college. The only big-time college hero on his squad is his passer, trigger-armed Otto Graham, late of Northwestern...