Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well they might be. When Charley Trippi, a great back from Georgia University, got his premature discharge from the Armed Forces, non-triple-threat G.I.'s threatened Congressional investigations. But when Trippi rejected a handful of attractive offers from the avowedly professional National Football League to return to college, it was accepted as the routine gravitation of talent to its most lucrative zone of operations. The Southeast Conference makes no bones about its over-the-counter football. Athletic scholarships are officially licensed, as is expense money, known affectionately within the trade as "B.T.R.", (board, room, tuition). B.T.R. may well...
...cartoon from the Yale Record . . . amused a great many of us Georgia alumni. On the back of the college official talking to the prospective footballer is written unmistakably "University of Georgia." It is obvious to us why the Yale cartoonist picks on Georgia, although the only difference between the recruiting of athletes at Yale and down south is that Yale has more money to spend, and goes about it more subtly. Yale men long ago founded the University of Georgia. Later, they established a pleasant football relationship, with Yale winning every year. Then beginning in the late '20s, Georgia...
Like Joseph Stalin, George Papashvily was born in Russia's Georgia. Then they became quite unalike: Joseph entered politics, George entered the U.S. In 1945, the Book-of-the-Month Club selected Anything Can Happen-a whimsical, owlish account in Georgian English of George's 20 years of life as an immigrant, dictated by himself, set down by his wife, Helen. Today, Helen runs the Moby Dick Bookshop in Allentown, Pa., and George spends "part of each day at a granite quarry working on an animal figure he designed to commemorate the plight of the world during...
...Stories, the new Papashvily opus, is not likely to be so popular as Anything Can Happen. It consists simply of 20 folk stories that were told to George when he was a Georgia boy. The principal characters include wolves, princesses, witches and giants-none of whom seems far removed from the worlds of Hans Christian Andersen or La Fontaine, all of whom combine to give this collection a childish and curious poetry...
Last week, at experimental centers in Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington, D.C., 30 literacy classes along Army lines began for 500 of the 3,000,000 Negroes who comprise nearly one third of U.S. adult illiterates. The 500 are a "pilot group"; the U.S. Office of Education hopes to wipe out all adult illiteracy. Just as the Army primers had talked about jeeps and girls rather than cats and mice, the textbooks for the Negroes were tailored to fit the special interests of a community, e.g., cottonfields. The Army found that exercises like "see the dog run" only bored adults...