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Georgia Tech, a two-touchdown favorite, had played its most lackluster game of the season, but it is one of the marks of a champion to win even on the off-days. Instead of being displeased, Tech Coach Robert Lee Dodd, easy and relaxed, gave credit to the other team rather than blaming his own. Said Dodd: "We're not too disappointed. After seeing the way Alabama played, we were extremely happy to win it at all." The remark summed up Dodd's whole coaching thesis: "I coach just like I would want to be coached...
Tech practice sessions are limited to an hour and a half, and the players seldom scrimmage after September. Says Dodd: "What can a good football player get out of knocking himself out blocking a freshman at practice when he played against an All-American last week?" Dodd's ten-man staff of assistants, one of the biggest coaching staffs in the country, give the players a maximum of attention and a minimum of tough talk...
Stigma & Tears. Some of the teachers used their turn on the witness stand for bellicose assaults on the committee's motives. Several members of the Teachers' Union made unfriendly remarks about their former associate, Bella Dodd, a repentant Communist who had been a friendly witness two weeks before (TIME, Sept. 22). Said Art Teacher Irving Glucksman: "I don't want to be a victim of any lying stool pigeon or any religious fanatic who thinks he is serving God by impoverishing the minds of children...
Last week a remorseful Bella Dodd ("God help me for what I did!") appeared as a witness before a Senate subcommittee investigating Communism in U.S. schools...
...Teachers Union promptly denounced ex-Communist Dodd's testimony as a rehash of "all the stale old slanders and lies that she herself exposed and refuted in the days when she had a respect for facts." But the subcommittee issued subpoenas for ten suspected teachers. Only seven could be found at the moment, and each of them appeared carrying a bag full of evasions. One social-studies teacher belligerently challenged Senator Ferguson to make a tour of the schools and see for himself how teachers have been "frightened" by the many investigations into Communism among New York teachers. When...