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Back in 1867 the famous preacher Henry Ward Beecher wrote a novel, his only one, Norwood; or Village Life in New England, which was serialized in the New York Ledger, and for which he received the then fabulous sum of $25,000. One of the minor characters was a mischievous boy from Hardscrabble, the poor down-at-the-heels farming suburb of Norwood...
Harry's gridiron career began back in the Fordham-Pittsburgh football dynasty of the late '30's, when he held down the left end slot of that famous forward wall, the Rams' "Seven Blocks of Granite"." In 1938, his senior year, Jacunski co-captained the Rams with Mike Kochel and proved himself a 60-minute man as Fordham lost only to the Panthers...
...Famous is the name of Harvard College: famed its teachers, famed its books, its buildings, and its attitudes. But a name is legend, nothing more; the student is the meaning, the living organism that passes on the ideas and the morality current in Cambridge. The worth of the College is the worth of its graduates, fresh-escaped from their four-year imprisonment in the mold. Who they were when they first saw the Square, how they got here, what exactly is the unformed Freshman medium--that is the subject of College Scene Number II. After that comes the deluge...
...Fancy Free. Disney's famous fauna, plus Edgar Bergen and Dinah Shore, put on a show that ranges from bad to brilliant and is generally easy to like (TIME...
...Stunned." Once he started shooting, Halsey won most of his arguments. But many an expert will continue to differ with certain Halsey tactics defended in his Story. Example: the famous Battle for Leyte Gulf in October 1944, where some critics claim that the Japanese decoyed Halsey out of position. On that occasion Admiral Nimitz bluntly radioed to ask where Halsey's battleships were. Says Halsey: "I was as stunned as if I had been struck in the face. The paper rattled in my hands. I snatched off my cap, threw it on the deck, and shouted something that...