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Properly togged in white ties and apprehensive grins, official Washington turned out in the Presidential Room of the Statler-Hilton hotel for its annual roasting by the 50 newsmen of the Gridiron Club. Just about every big shot in earshot got done to a turn. But the griddle was never hotter than when Attorney General Robert Kennedy was asked about his refinement of the art of Cuban ransom raising...
Traditional Ribs. Bobby's ribbing was part of a hoary tradition. The Gridiron, formed in 1885 by 50 Washington newsmen, is a dining club with little excuse for existence other than its annual dinner-still something of a command performance. The club itself has become somewhat self-conscious with age. Women, television and magazine reporters are barred. The current roster, frozen at 50 regular members entitled to wear Gridiron lapel buttons, is made up mostly of bureau chiefs. But the club does have 15 limited members, chiefly to provide music and song for the annual skits. John Philip Sousa...
...alliance of Midwestern universities dedicated to beating one another's brains out on the gridiron. Like the Ivy League, which football also launched, it may soon be known more for minds than for muscles. Last week the Big Ten schools, joined by an ex-member, the University of Chicago, agreed to link their graduate facilities in the world's biggest "academic common market...
Caplin went out for boxing at the university and, lacking any special gifts of physique, he had to work at it. Since Virginia refused to subsidize football players, it got trounced regularly on the gridiron. Recalls Law School Dean Frederick Ribble: "The students were humiliated. They felt their manhood was in question. Then along came Morty, the boxer. He started knocking people down and became a hero." Dogged Middleweight Caplin fought for a time with a broken bone in his right hand...
...near to freezing in Memphis when the Delta Automatic Transmission eleven took on the Elvis Presley Enterprisers for an evening of touch football. The Enterprisers, who promote, among other things, genuine Elvis T shirts had the genuine Elvis playing for them. In well-packed elastic gridiron pants, spiffy blue-and-white-striped socks, a blue jersey emblazoned with a big white "7." Elvis concentrated mainly on defense. The Enterprisers lost...