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...this and other satiric bits ricocheted through a Statler Hilton dining room, John Kennedy's smile seemed wan. Like any President, Kennedy is sensitive to kidding, and at their annual Gridiron Club dinner, Washington newsmen ribbed him, his policies and his family mercilessly. But when the President arose for his own five-minute speech, he showed that he could dish it out as well as take...
Coming to the team from the football ranks are Jim Beery, Ted Halaby, Ron Juvonen, Jeff Pochop, Chuck Reed, Gene Skowronski, and Bob Stringer. They will join John Damis, Ed Smith, and Jim Reark, football players who have played rugby before, to round out the gridiron support on this spring's team...
After graduation from Penn State, Harlow took over at Western Maryland State and coached it into football prominence. After 27 straight wins there, he came to Harvard, which was at that time in the gridiron doldrums. There was fear that Harvard would then go "big-time" in football, but Harlow, according to his players, combined an "anti-emphasis" aproach with respectability on the field...
...President of all the American people, John Kennedy has a rare talent for blending in with Americans of all kinds. Last week, attending the National Football Foundation's annual banquet in Manhattan, he posed for pictures with a crop of 1961 gridiron stars, fitted in so perfectly that it was hard to tell who were the halfbacks and who was the President. Moving on to the convention of the National Association of Manufacturers, he puffed a cigar with the best of the businessmen, could easily have passed as a prosperous Boston paper-box tycoon. Again, at a roisterous meeting...
Freshman football captain Charley Kessler is available for duty on defense also, and ably employs his gridiron skills on the ice. Art Norton rounds out a quartet of defensemen that allowed only 44 goals this season. Again, there was depth and consistency, adroitness and ability...