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...Rock. It was a slaughter all right?just like David and Goliath. In those days football was a mannerly game: teams were expected to punt on first down inside their own 20-yd. line and never, never throw a forward pass. The upstarts from Indiana punted only on fourth down???and passed the Cadets goggle-eyed. In one fantastic flurry. Quarterback Gus Dorais completed 12 in a row. His main target was a balding bandy-legged end named Knute Kenneth Rockne, who at 5 ft. 8 in. and 145 lbs. was probably the smallest man on the field. Army defenders...
...knows nothing about the editorial end of journalism, and cares even less. To him, newspapers are "properties," usually identified by locale. "I just bought New Orleans," he told a friend after his Southern coup. Newhouse once had a chance to buy Israel's Jerusalem Post, but turned it down???thereby sparing his friends the observation, "I just bought Jerusalem." His properties are valued not by content but by readership. "It's a great paper," said Newhouse, after buying a minority interest in the Denver Post two years ago. "It has a circulation of 250,000." When he is moved...
...STARS LOOK DOWN???A. J. Cronin ?Little, Brown ($2.50). HORSE SHOE BOTTOMS?Tom Tippett?Harper...
FROM THIS HILL LOOK DOWN???Elliott Merrick?Stephen Daye Press ($2). Sensitive, perceptive, accurate, slight, a picture of rural Vermont from the point of view of a city white-collar employe, broke and out of a job, who finds satisfaction by a return to the soil; a novel made up of short stories, by the author of True North...
...uncomfortably sealed, Senator James Eli Watson, Republican Leader, was overtaken in the corridor by a newsgatherer who panted his question: "Say. Senator?is everything? in the bill?going up?" Leader Watson, unable to resist temptation longer, shot back as he hurried on: "No, not everything. Some things are coming down??? but not many...