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Stahley has several other linemen who have been shaping up well in scrimmage. Tom Gardiner, a weighty six-footer, will see play Saturday. Along with Tom Broderick, he has been frequently used in the A lineup. Broderick, by the way, is the only squad member who can stand up to Miller as an equal. Broderick is a 217-pounder himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hope of Future Varsity Grid Teams Meets Test as Yardlings Face Exeter | 10/7/1938 | See Source »

Irving Hall, 195-pound six-footer, and Captain Larry Atwell, 185-pound triple threat, will be the Bear's big claws offensively. Hall ran wild against the Brown scrubs a couple of days ago, while Atwell's chef d'oeuvre is his quick kicking...

Author: By Staff Correspondent, | Title: TOUCH BACKFIELD, TAME LINE SHOWN SO FAR BY BEARS | 9/28/1938 | See Source »

...dour as they are unintelligible, the favorite Red comeback is the case of John Strachey. Cousin of the late Lytton Strachey, heir to an English baronetcy, former M.P. who in 1931 quit the Mac-Donald coalition government to join the Reds, John Strachey is a softly athletic six-footer who lectures in tails. Smoothtongued, witty, he has made himself a favorite with middle-class lecture audiences, while his Coming Struggle for Power (1933), the first and only "Party line" bestseller, made him a reputation as the nearest thing to a popularizer of the nearly unpopularizable Karl Marx...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Model Labor | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...year-old Fakir, a strapping six-footer who takes his name from the Waziristan village of Ipi, once worked as a Peshawar porter and in Britain's Indian Civil Service. Then he became a religious fanatic, went to live in the Waziristan hills. Two years ago he gathered the tribesmen about him, began a revolt against Britain. Time & again scouting British airplanes have located the Fakir's hideouts and British troops have rushed to capture him. Each time he got away, has left behind a total of some 200 British officers and men killed, hundreds wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Elusive Ipi | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...Partlow, the wiry little jumper and sprinter who claims he does better when he isn't feeling well, should take the broad jump, and may crack the record of 23 feet, 6 inches; he came within four inches of that mark against Exeter. A consistent six-footer, he is a good bot in the high jump, may win points if he runs the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 5/10/1938 | See Source »

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