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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Compared with Coach Leahy, Stu Holcomb sounded like Pollyanna. Ten of Purdue's eleven 1947 starters were back this year, including Quarterback Bob De-Moss, a fine passer, and Halfback Harry Szulborski, who averaged better than six yards a try in 1947. That left Holcomb only one understandable gripe: a schedule that pits Purdue against Notre Dame, Northwestern and Michigan in the first three weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Leahy Carries On | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Leahy Carries On | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

Jeweled Movement. In Portales, N. Mex., Millard F. Holcomb finally discovered the reason why his cow had been limping for the past six years: his wife's long-lost diamond ring was firmly lodged in its hoof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 14, 1948 | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

General Thomas ("Tommy") Holcomb (ret.), commandant of the Marine Corps from 1936 through '43 (and first Marine ever to become a full general), resigned at 68, after four years as U.S. Minister to the Union of South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 29, 1948 | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

...embassies were loaded, too. Ike Eisenhower's wartime right hand, General Walter Bedell Smith, was in Moscow. Vice Admiral Alan G. Kirk, who had a big part in the Navy show at Sicily and Normandy, was in Belgium. The Marines onetime commandant. General Thomas Holcomb, was in South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Accent on Brass | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

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