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...current Eli quarterback is junior Roly Purrington, who started the season on the third string and took over the helm two games ago from Don Pfiel, out with a concussion...
Rookies at the Helm No one is more likely to change from Saturday's hero into Sunday's nobody than a rookie pro-football quarterback. Experts generally agree that it takes five to six years for a fledgling passer to gain the poise, knowledge and confidence-in himself as well as that of his teammates-to become a winner. Even the best young signal callers usually find themselves enduring a lengthy novitiate behind a seasoned...
...pioneered revolutionary techniques like CinemaScope and presided over the production of dozens of screen classics, including The Robe, The Snake Pit and Gentleman's Agreement. Blamed for massive losses incurred partly by the $30 million epic Cleopatra, he resigned as Fox president in 1962 and later took the helm of the Prudential-Grace shipping lines...
...tiller of his 41-ft. sloop Morning Cloud. In fact, critics feel, he shows more devotion to Morning Cloud than to Britain. Opposition Leader Harold Wilson has called Heath a "part-time" Prime Minister, and the daily Sun has accused "Skipper Ted" of "sitting bronzed and beaming at the helm while the economy of the U.K. sinks slowly." The squalls of outrage really blew up when Heath, intent on winning a place in the ocean-going Admiral's Cup Race in August, went to a qualifying race instead of the trooping of the color on the Queen...
...association of their own, a lot like the Elks or the Mafia. It is hard to be an Ivy League President and not pick up degrees from all the other schools in the League. This year's best bet: Donald Hornig '40, a Harvard man who took over the helm at Brown last year...