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...college basketball teams are certain shades of gray, Georgetown at least seems as light as its pewter uniform. An academic coordinator, Mary Fenlon, holds the rank of assistant coach and sits on the bench looking like a cross schoolmarm. Though 7-ft. Center Patrick Ewing regularly says "we was" and "they was," he must be learning something. Senior Guard Fred Brown is asked if the championship makes him feel complete, and he replies thoughtfully, "No, I still have to get my degree." Without irony, Brown says he envisions a career in the FBI, the CIA or the Secret Service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hoops and Huggable Hoyas | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

...single exception gives an interesting example of Legion-and Ringley-politics in action. In 1953, Illinois State Commander Lawrence Fenlon announced that he wanted to run for national commander. Ringley publicly endorsed FenIon's candidacy. But he quietly passed the word that he really favored Connecticut's Arthur Connell. Reason: Fenlon was so popular in his own state that he was becoming a threat to Ringley's control of the Illinois Legion. Connell won easily, Fenlon dropped out of sight, and Ringley remained the master of the Legion situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: Kingmakers & Fun Lovers | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

Ends Bob Maune--he's scored twice so far--and Kent McGinley, tackles Jack Bentzinger and Gerald Lee; Guards John Krause and Ted Berger, and center Joe Fenlon will start on the offensive line. End Brad Stevens is also sure to see action. Berger, at 185 pounds, is the squad's best blocker...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 10/11/1952 | See Source »

...Anna said, "He's been out of work for nine years. He spent my $500 savings on booze. Then he came home and robbed the baby's bank. I don't want him, judge. He won't lay off it." Sentence: three months. When Frank Fenlon asked for clemency, his sister vetoed it. Sentence: 110 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Wives | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

...ever to get a red hat, Cardinal Verdier was invested by Pius XI in person. He is currently in the U. S. on a tour of Sulpician houses. Though fluent in French, German and Italian, he speaks little English, has for interpreter and traveling companion Very Rev. John F. Fenlon, superior of U. S. Sulpicians, president of St. Mary's Seminary & University in Baltimore. Last week Cardinal Verdier arrived from Montreal by way of Worcester, Mass., stopped a few days in a French church in Manhattan, then entrained for Baltimore. Thence he was to go to Washington, stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Verdier's Visit | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

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