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...fundamental technique of the game is apparently required, because the freshman classes do not include any substantial number of finished football players. This means that it is necessary for each class to produce a group of 20 or 30 men who are determined to undergo for four years the grind of modern football. It also connotes the existence of a sufficient staff of competent coaches...
...shrewdest, best-dressed and most volatile club owner in the business, views hockey with a calculating, professional eye. As long as his Leafs are bouncing enemy players around like India-rubber men and the turnstiles keep clicking, he wastes no time worrying about the long, 70-game grind of the regular season. Smythe specializes in outshining the competition when the blue chips are down-in the post-season Stanley Cup playoffs. For the past three years, Smythe's Maple Leafs have skated off with the coveted cup, although they finished the regular season in first place only once...
...added, that he was "contributing." He toyed with the idea that he might contribute more by becoming a psychiatrist. "I guess I talked up a storm about the thing," he says. "Everybody thought that was going to be the next move." But it would have meant a long grind through pre-med courses and medical school," and Stan was already 37. Last week his latest move, right back to what he started from, was the loudest thing in Los Angeles...
...advertising. Said Mr. Larsen: "Our magazines are dedicated to" the distribution of informa tion - and this applies to their advertising as well as to their editorial pages. Just as the work of our world could not go on without the swift ex change of news - so would our economy, grind to a halt without the swift exchange of goods and news about those goods." The advertisements in TIME'S International editions, like those in other U.S. publications distributed overseas, constitute a major medium for the ex change across our borders of news about goods and their sources. Naturally...
...Boston Harbor Swim in 1936, '37, and '38, and again in 1946, '47, '48, and '49, setting a new course record in 48. This annual five-mile grind from L. Street in South Boston to Squantum and back provides the winner with a small purse and a large trophy in the name of the mayor of Boston. Grover has had little trouble getting the prize money for his seven victories, but last year was the first time the trophy came through...