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More About Everything. When some of his students refused to be roused, Ergil announced that he would wrestle any boy who did not turn in homework. Half a dozen or so of the huskier kids took him up. The slightly built (5 ft. 9 in., 145 Ibs.) teacher marched them to the gym, convinced them in successive falls of the importance of hard study. Ergil's qualifications for teaching, it turned out, included wrestling for his alma mater, the University of Istanbul. Other qualifications of Liberal Artist Ergil, now a U.S. citizen: two years of pre-med training, three...
...toughest Olympic test of all had been all but conceded to U.C.L.A.'s World Record Holder Rafer Johnson. The U.S. Navy's and Indiana U.'s Milt Campbell, runner-up to 1952 Champion Bob Mathias at Helsinki, and an even huskier broth of a boy four years later, had other ideas. "The good Lord," said Campbell, had told him to try the decathlon rather than the hurdles, and the young (23) Negro poured it on in almost every event. Only a surprisingly poor showing in the pole vault (11 ft. 1¾ in.) kept Campbell from breaking...
Under George (Born Yesterday) Cukor's direction, Judy Holliday is still playing dumb Billie Dawn, while Newcomer Aldo Ray is just a nice husky guy with an even huskier voice. The plot reconciles them at the end on the questionable grounds that they have a way of life worth saving, but by that time the wordy script has divorced itself from its theme...
...local Indians a dull lot. The native tribes raised no crops, did little hunting, lived relaxed lives on acorns and sea food, and offered only feeble resistance to Spanish soldiers and missionaries. Last week Anthropologist Phil C. Orr of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History described some huskier, earlier and odder Californians whose remains he discovered on barren Santa Rosa Island, off Santa Barbara...
...political climate at certain high altitudes of the Truman Administration is the climate of Clara Boyle's generation of machine politicians. The big-city machines were a lot huskier then than they are today. They recruited thousands of people like Clara Boyle, who considered themselves and were considered by their neighbors as decent, God-fearing men & women. (It would never have occurred to Clara Boyle that her friend Tom Pendergast was a crook; they both attended the Visitation Roman Catholic Church.) The machine politicians of the precincts and the city-hall corridors had ethical standards which were...