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Olivar, who has never really transferred his business interests to the East, has led a list of likely successors to Waldorf for several months. The Eli mentor coached the team of Loyola, of California, before coming to Yale in 1950 to replace Herman Hickman...
...going to buy a puppy"), "Yesterday" ("When a pretty filly, Goldsmith Maid, was the belle of the sporting world"), "Under 21" ("Some wonderful things can be done with a boomerang"). Among the new magazine's regular contributors: Tennis Player Bill Talbert, Sport Writer Red Smith, Football Grandee Herman Hickman, Nature Humorist John ("Tex") O'Reilly, Novelist and Boxing Impresario Budd Schulberg...
...policy outwardly condemned by Yale's president. While Griswold sat with other Ivy League officials talking about lighter schedules and a general de-emphasis, Hall remained in his office blithely placing teams like Army and Navy on the Eli schedule. It was Hall, who contracted roly-poly Herman Hickman, as Eli coach, and it was Hall who fully endorsed Herman's beating the bush for athletes. One usually does not expect a mere athletic director to run roughshod over the president of a huge university, but Hall seemed to think that Griswold ought to stick to matters of alumni, faculty...
...Griswold held Hall directly responsible for the hiring of Herman Hickman, and indirectly responsible for Hickman's subsequent attempt to build a team by any expedient methods...
...awful sight it is ... I have very seldom seen, in all the strange and dreadful things I have seen in London and elsewhere, anything so shocking as the dire neglect of soul and body exhibited in these children." Again, he describes to Miss Coutts a slum called Hickman's Folly: "wooden houses like horrible old packing cases full of fever for a countless number of years. In a broken down gallery at the back of a row of these, there was a wan child looking over at a starved old white horse . . . The sun was going down and flaring...