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...Good. When the slaughter finally ended, outclassed Abilene Christian could take some comfort in the fact that it might have been worse. Memphis State's No. 1 quarterback, James Earl Wright, 22, key man in the Tigers' wide-open attack and the most dangerous back in the South, had been given an afternoon off. A sturdy six-footer, Wright is the ideal split-T quarterback. He runs the bread-and-butter option play with swift precision, can throw a pass accurately while on the dead run to either his left or his right. Says Coach Frank Camp, whose...
...session of the U.S. Supreme Court began last week with the court crier's customary call, "Oyez, oyez, oyez." But right after that, Chief Justice Earl Warren leaned forward, half-smiled, and shattered an old tradition. Henceforth, he announced, the court will meet at 10 a.m. each Monday through Thursday instead of at noon. Reason: to speed up the work of the court, which this fall has 1,063 cases already on the docket-a record for the opening of a session...
Greeted as "Lady Paulina Peeps" by a London magistrate trying her on a traffic charge, Lady Paulina Mary Louise Pepys, second daughter of the sixth Earl of Cottenham and a descendant of 17th century Diarist Samuel Pepys, shook lovers of English literature the world over with her reply. "Sorry," she snorted, "but it's 'Pepp-iss.' " Later, when admirers of her candid ancestor challenged her on the point, the 31-year-old London librarian insisted: "If he did call himself 'Peeps,' he was the first member of the family to do so and none...
...where the bullets are being fired," West Pointer Eichelberger saw his first combat in 1918 as a member of the U.S. Expeditionary Force in Siberia (where he won three Japanese medals for bravery), earned an enduring place in the affections of Army men by bringing in winning Football Coach Earl Blaik during a prewar tour as Superintendent of West Point, and won equal, if somewhat more ironic, affection as a postwar Japanese occupation commander, where his friendly, homespun ways symbolized U.S. democracy and fairness...
...lost; mentioned in a London auction catalogue in 1834, it was not heard of again until a former president of the museum found it in a private collection in 1945. The museum's Cromwell Dissolving the Long Parliament is one of five historical canvases done for the Earl of Grosvenor in 1782 by Benjamin West, the Pennsylvanian who became president of the Royal Academy of Arts and court historical painter to George...