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...Lafayette, not far away, Purdue's Boilermakers were practicing in secret last week behind a high canvas screen. Businesslike Coach Stu Holcomb, who had been an assistant to Earl Blaik at West Point in the Davis-Blanchard heyday, had them hustling. He got the Boilermakers out on the practice field at an ungentlemanly 8:30 a.m., needled them with his impatient...
...Seal & Red Ink. In its heyday, Continental powered hundreds of models of independent automobiles with its famous "Red Seal" engines. But it was on the downgrade in 1931 when onetime Mechanic Jack Reese came in as purchasing agent; only a million-dollar RFC loan saved it from bankruptcy. In 1939, when Continental lost $215,165 on $7,000,000 in sales, RFC forced a reorganization and insisted that cost-conscious Jack Reese run the company...
Fort Devens College was only meant to be a makeshift. It had been hastily put together in 1946 at a former Army post to handle Massachusetts veterans who couldn't get into other overcrowded colleges. In its heyday last fall it had an enrollment of 1,750' students. Last week, signalizing the decline of the G.I. boom, Fort Devens College gave notice that it would close up next spring for lack of students. Said Dean Wentworth Williams: "We are dying a natural death...
Diaghilev's "Ballet Russe" took Europe's breath away; and kept it breathless for a generation. The Ballet's heyday was a succession of champagne parties, command performances and brilliant triumphs; all the first-rate artists of the day were caught up in it: composers like Ravel, Richard Strauss and DeFalla; artists like Picasso, Matisse, Bakst and Rouault; dancers like Nijinsky and Karsavina; choreographers like Fokine, Massine and Balanchine...
...serial's heyday, women were the stars (Pearl White in 1913-14 in The Exploits of Elaine and The Perils of Pauline). But in 1935, Republic made millions out of The Phantom Empire, starring Gene Autry, and ever since it's been a man's world...