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...Pittsburgh, the remnants of Pitt's 1938 Dream Team (minus Goldberg, Stebbins, Chickerneo and Coach Jock Sutherland) that had been painstakingly put together by their new coach, Charley Bowser, displayed some sparkling aerial tactics that bombed West Virginia...
...this failed to disturb Pitt's standpat trustees (including the late Andrew W. Mellon, Steelman Ernest Tener Weir*, Food-man Howard Heinz, Westinghouse Chair man Andrew Wells Robertson). But last spring the trustees were disturbed indeed when Football Coach John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland quit. Apparent reason for his resignation was a decision by Chancellor Bowman to purify Pitt athletics, but insiders knew that Jock had become fed up with Dr. Bowman. As Jock walked out, students staged a boisterous strike, proclaimed : "We've had enough of this dictatorship." Alumni began to demand that "Big John" and "Little John...
...Poloists Pete Bostwick, Bobby Gerry, Ebby Gerry and Eric Tyrrell-Martin of England (entered as Bostwick Field): the U. S. Open Polo Championship; defeating Jock Whitney's Greentree team (Peter Grace, Bob Skene of Australia, Tommy Hitchcock and Jock Whitney) in the final, 8-to-7; at Long Island's Meadow Brook Club...
...paintings of Canadian Cavalry, done while he was attached to the Army in France in 1917-18, now hang in the National Gallery of Canada. His painting of the late King George V, riding to a shoot in plus fours and gaiters on his little grey pony, Jock, was commissioned by Queen Mary. On Derby Day, 1925, Munnings became a member of the Royal Academy. In his work, as in his life, he is tweedy and correct...
...Jock Bellairs had a wife whom he loved and she had to have a leg amputated. From that day on he gave up drinking and settled down. At 70 he is a conservative, steady, hard-working newspaperman who not only covers police but, under the name of Verdino, writes a daily column on fishing and hunting, and finds time to act as secretary of the St. Louis Newspaper Guild. He is going to write his memoirs, if he can ever find the time...