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Head Freshman Football Coach Skip Stahley and his aides will get their first glimpse of the Yardling football hopefuls when the 1943 gridiron candidates descend upon Dillon Field House this afternoon at 3 o'clock...
...Excerpt: "I know this parole problem is difficult. It is as difficult as God Almighty's gymnastic paraphernalia provided for the development of human beings. . . . People who believe in crime by force should get their necks broken, or we should put them on the gridiron and burn them up. You bet your life! That puts the fear of God in their hearts. Then if you've got something left over worth salvaging, give them parole...
...first tryout were new Senator Clyde Reed of Kansas, new Governor Ray Baldwin of Connecticut, new Senator Robert Taft of Ohio. Of these, Governor Baldwin did the best job of speechmaking but Senator Taft got the biggest headlines: in slightly better oratorical form than the night of his Gridiron Dinner fiasco (TIME, April 24), he took the bold political risk of accusing the President of the U. S. of using foreign policy as a curtain for his domestic difficulties. Excerpt...
...Gridiron captain and center last fall Johnny Walker is backstop for the Scarlet and White outfit. Walker and third baseman Johnny "Yama" Quinn may provide puncherino for the Terrier lads...
...Italian Ambassador and the Albanian Minister, Franklin Roosevelt and Jack Garner, Tom Dewey and Bob Taft, all sat down for dinner together one night last week in Washington. Such things are possible only at Gridiron Club dinners, where Washington newsmen play host and entertainer to the political great with song & skit...