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...speech before the American Football Coaches Association in Hous ton, the New York Stock Exchange's retiring president, Keith Funston, 56. did a bit of recruiting for the bulls and the bears. "The values so essential to success on the gridiron are highly prized in business," Funston evangelized, inviting the nation's college-football players to try out for slots in the securities business. Like ideal businessmen, he said, football players are possessed of self-confidence, imagination, leadership and competitive spirit. Funston had better watch out. As a rule, the lads are also big and mean and pretty...
Ford's present team, the Republican delegation in the House of Representatives, is considerably less manageable than the old gridiron squads used to be. But Ford capitalizes on the same qualities of personality that made him a star lineman and coach. He is diligent, hard-working, thorough and honest. If rarely dynamic or inspiring he sets an example for his colleagues with conscientious committee work, and unswerving party loyalty. As a member of the Appropriations Committee, Ford was praised by members of both parties for his quiet expertise on defense matters. In 1964, he left for the San Francisco convention...
...Boston Gridiron Club had the last rave about Bobby Leo's fantastic varsity career when it selected the Harvard halfback as the 1966 recipient of the George Bolger Lowe Award Saturday...
...will receive the award December 7 at a banquet sponsored by the Gridiron Club...
...About You? While Jack Kennedy was alive, there was always an amount of kidding about a whole succession of Kennedys occupying the White House. Back in 1959, a newsman decked out as Family Patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy sang this ditty at the satirical Gridiron Club dinner...