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...Herman Hickman has spent most of his life alternately telling funny stories and pummeling his fellow men. As burly (5 ft. 11 in., 230 Ibs.) All-America guard at Tennessee ('32), he tore opposing lines to shreds; as a professional wrestler, he grunted & groaned through 300 contests; as a line coach at West Point (1943-48), he had to stop mixing in the scrimmage with his boys because he put too many of them in the hospital. But last week on the Herman Hickman Show (Fri. 7 p.m., NBC), televiewers saw only his friendly side...
...first of his new series, Hickman, now 41 and weighing 310 Ibs., surrounded himself with some actors who pretended to be reporters. They asked questions and joined him in laughing at his replies (sample: "Is it true that you'll eat anything, coach?" "I'll eat anything that don't eat me first"). Hickman told tall stories about his hillbilly life in the Great Smokies, recited some folksy poetry. (His friends insist that Hickman actually prefers Homer and Tennyson to Edgar A. Guest and that, though he was born in the Tennessee hills, his forebears were lawyers...
...either the high authorities didn't listen at first, or the pressure was slow in building up, because the middle of the summer is indeed, a most unusual time to switch Hermans. The feeling is, that after school ended, Hickman was asked by the Powers to ease up on the T.V. When he refused, the Blues got together, and started writing his 'resignation' announcement, holding its release only until the opportunity when it would least hurt Yale--and Herman. It is still uncertain who brought in the cigars, the College or the Coach...
...remains that he was pushed--that Yale started looking for the axe right after the season was over, and those that originally felt that Hickman jumped Yale, and there were many of us, were wrong...
...thus Herman Hickman, so round, so firm, so fully packed, packed up and left, aided by a swarm of slow-burning Yale alumni...