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...permission before plunging ahead with a film in which a befuddled Notre Dame football team is corrupted by Nubian dancers and walloped by treacherous Arabs coached by a Jewish U-2 pilot working for the CIA in a mythical Middle Eastern country. To the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, Notre Dame's president, whom the film depicts as "Father Ryan," there was only one answer: John Goldfarb, please go away...
Like a venerable bank or a vintage Bordeaux, a great university must be ever watchful of its reputation, and the University of Notre Dame is more watchful than most. Once the school's fame lay in its fightin'-Irish football cult; then the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh became president, and the school got academic quality too. This year a great new coach, Ara Parseghian, offered hope of a fine Olympic balance...
...says Hesburgh, the hard-won image is endangered by a $4,000,000 Hollywood farce called John Goldfarb, Please Come Home, in which Shirley MacLaine and a platoon of harem houris corrupt the Notre Dame football team. Last week in Manhattan, Notre Dame charged foul play, filed an in junction in New York State Supreme Court to block 20th Century-Fox from showing the movie...
...exploitation of its name and insignia, the suit protested that Notre Dame would suffer "irreparable and immeasurable injury" if Goldfarb were shown, but the school did not ask for damages. "The University of Notre Dame is not for sale for such uses," said the petition. What particularly annoyed Hesburgh was the way-out plot that depicts Notre Dame players "as undisciplined gluttons and drunks...
...gave way to Joe Kuharich in 1959. Kuharich, a top pro coach with the National Football League's Washington Redskins, was no improvement. Over two seasons, 23 of his players had to be operated on for knee injuries. What's more, Notre Dame's president, the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh (TIME cover, Feb. 9. 1962), was determinedly hauling up the school's academic standards, saw no reason to grant exemptions to football players. The upshot: Kuharich lost 23 out of 40 games, quit in 1962 to go back to the pros (he now coaches the Philadelphia Eagles). Finally, last year...