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Last year when Yale's Larry Kelley sighed, "Gee, I'm sorry my career is over," he echoed the adolescent sentiments of many another young man who becomes a famed college football player, cashes in his reputation for a job upon graduation, then spends the rest of his life remembering his "great days." Such a one is Walter William ("Pudge") Heffelfinger. a Minneapolis boy who played guard for Yale and was on Walter Camp's original All-America football teams of 1889-90-91. After graduation Pudge Heffelfinger played a little professional football, coached at the University...
...month to record how life goes there. They have a high mark of eloquence to shoot at, for Percy Leo Crosby put it all down in pen & ink years ago in the old Life with a single drawing of a tattered youngster gazing at a rural vista and saying: "Gee, it's so beeyoo-tiful I'd like to give somebody a sock...
...Gee, it's hot. What if some guest should come in and see every body draped around in his shirt sleeves. I'll keep my coat on, and besides, there's a chair over here by the window where I won't be within six feet of anyone else...
...Gee, but we get a thrill...
With this letter William Randolph Hearst drew a bead on his audience which has not wavered in 50 years of "Gee Whiz!" journalism. Eight years later, with the Examiner going strong, the first big battle by Hearst for his publishing empire was fought in Manhattan. He grappled for an Eastern footing with Joseph Pulitzer and his old model, Pulitzer's sensational World. Gentle Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst, whose fortune was always at her beloved son's disposal, sold her Anaconda copper shares for $7,500,000 to finance this New York struggle. But it was in San Francisco...