Word: hunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also undefeated are the Chicago Bears. Before he turned his team over to Co-Coaches Hunk Anderson and Luke Johnsos and joined the Navy, Bear-Owner George Halas had built a squad that still looks like the League's strongest. Its star is Sid Luckman, Columbia ace of 1938, whose passing record of 53 completed out of 90 attempts is 10.8% behind Baugh's (46 completed of 66 attempted...
...wish to correct the statement about "name coaches" that have gone into the services (TIME, Sept. 20). . . . Hunk Anderson is not the football coach at the University of Iowa. He is the line coach of the Chicago Bears...
...reasonably sure thing was that college football this fall would be worth watching. Many of the name coaches (Harvard's Dick Harlow, Minnesota's Bernie Bierman, Fordham's Sleepy Jim Crowley, Iowa's Hunk Anderson) had gone into the services. The old hands still on the job were short of time if not talent, would have a hard time putting together the kind of precision machine that football fans had been accustomed to watching. Especially to new coaches, who saw a chance to make a quick reputation, the possibilities of a wide-open game, full...
...been acknowledged by a torrent of military fan mail. Comedian Bob Hope closed one Command Performance broadcast with the remark that if the boys wanted Songstress Ginny Simms to purr another number, "just tear off the top of a Zero and send it in." The boys sent a big hunk of wing with the Rising...
...small town of Threerivers, Calif., the largest piece of wood carving in the U.S.* has been under way since last autumn. Dark-haired, muscular Sculptor Carroll Barnes has been chopping away at a 22-ton hunk of Sequoia gigantea (world's largest tree), gradually carving it into a gigantic statue of the lumberman's legendary hero, Paul Bunyan, and his blue ox, Babe. Last week, depressed by poor returns from his first one-man show in San Francisco, Barnes had a mind to hang a "war casualty" sign on Paul and get a job driving a tractor...