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Today' workout was the usual Thursday afternoon drill, with the emphasis, as it has been during the week, on punting under pressure and pass plays. MacKinney's kicking was outstanding, averaging fifty yards per boot despite the wet bell and sloppy footing, while bespectacled Don McNichol's handling of he slippery pigskin during the passing practice was little short of sensational...
Rather than yielding to penny-pinching, pound-wasting budget balancers who would throw out the CCC and other New Deal aids to the underprivileged, Congress should realize that wars are won at the supper table and in the dentist's and doctor's office, as well as on the drill fields of Devens. Using the CCC as framework, a series of semi-military camps could be set up to strengthen American youth both for battle and for peace. Anyone rejected for remedial defects should be at once subject to this physical reconditioning. No nations can hope to be strong with...
...signal drill, which saw Bill Barnes, MacKinney, Forte, and jack Morgan all alternating on the first team, lasted far into the evening, as three teams ran through plays on the darkening field...
...Signal Drill lineup--"B" Team: le MacKinney, It Mallett, lg Grunig, e Ayres, rg Whitehill, rt Stannard, re Farley, bb Goldthwaite and Lyman, lh Pirnie and summers, rh Lyle, fb Johnson...
...carted a 32-ton block of Tennessee marble onto the lawn in front of West Hartford's prim Town Hall. There, stripped to the waist, Sculptor Ziolkowski hacked and chiseled. He turned night into day with glaring floodlights, rang West Hartford's rural welkin with an electric drill. When the West Hartford clergy protested his working on the Sabbath, bushy-headed Ziolkowski snorted: "There seems to be no objection to golfing, tennis, motoring and sports in general on the Sabbath, so why the rumpus over the creation of a masterpiece of art?" As months passed, Sculptor Ziolkowski...