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Mike Ippolito of football fame will take over first and batting clean-up for the Tigers, although under normal conditions he's a pitcher. Centerfielder Tom Morris, another carry-over from the gridiron ranks, is likewise one of the Tigers' leading hitters...
Like its Washington counterpart, Manila's annual National Press Club Gridiron show is enlivened by roasting the politicians in the audience. But never before had Manila's jesting correspondents gone so far in impertinence. The curtain rose on a scratching, underwear-clad figure representing President Carlos Garcia during last year's election campaign. A Chinese constituent, loaded down with pesos, came onstage and said he was "velly happy that good fliend Garcia running for Plesident." Garcia orotundly protested that he never took bribes. The Chinese was just about to leave in confusion when, from backstage, a figure...
...Force zoomed back into the wild blue yonder only 13 days (average) after appendectomy, 17 days after hernia repair. Naval recruits went back to the full rigors of boot training only nine to 32 days after hernia surgery. Pro football players (Philadelphia Eagles) have returned to gridiron mauling 30 days after appendectomy with no ill effects...
...promised that the paper would be devoted without bias to "sound military ideas and to the elevation of the public service." The weekly, which expanded its name to the Army, Navy, Air Force Journal after the Air Force became a separate arm, was willed to Washington's famed Gridiron Club of newsmen in 1949 by Colonel John O'Laughlin, its longtime publisher (and onetime Assistant Secretary of State under President Theodore Roosevelt). The club turns its profits over to a fund for indigent newsmen...
...fire all informers, ordered his professors to stop calling his players stupid. It was the professors, he said, and not the players, who were stupid. But the letters to the Journal kept right on coming in, one complaining of "the young scholars who spend their afternoons on the gridiron and their evenings with their fingers in somebody else's cashbox...