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...This is only Rumor No. 687," pooh-poohed Sportswriter Harry Keck of Pittsburgh's Sun Telegraph last week. But the rumor he was talking about proved well founded. Dr. John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland, famed Pitt football coach, who was dumped into the open market a year ago after a row with Pitt educators, was thereafter rumored engaged almost as often as Brenda Frazier, had actually signed a contract: to coach the Brooklyn Dodgers, National League professional-football club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rumor No. 687 | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...felt in exalted circles against the holding of that post [War Secretary] by a man who was a Jew and who was the centre of the Goebbels propaganda. What circles got hold of the Prime Minister with these stories?" When Neville Chamberlain ignored this query, extreme Left Independent Laborite Jock McGovern jumped up and demanded: "Will the Prime Minister give a denial of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Go-Getter's Exit | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...doing so he had sold an interest in his daily to some of the biggest fortunes in the U. S. A roll call of his paper's stockholders reads like a list of Dun & Bradstreet's AA ratings. Some of them: John Hay ("Jock") Whitney; Marshall Field III; Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.'s George Huntington Hartford II; Chewing Gum's Philip Knight Wrigley; Marion Rosenwald Stern and her brother, Lessing Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; Lawyer Garrard Bigelow Winston, Under Secretary of the Treasury in Calvin Coolidge's Administration; Producer Dwight Deere Wiman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Birth of a Daily | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

Dunster, with only one line and three substitutes, was no match at all for a sterling Dormitory sextet, which triumphed 7 to 0 in a very one-sided affair. Many of the out-of-House first stringers did not show up, but Jock Elliott led his teammates to an easy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUNNIES EDGE LOWELL IN FIERCE HOCKEY TILT | 1/9/1940 | See Source »

...night sessions, Fleming and Selznick worked with cutters, taking out, putting in, putting in, taking out, until they had a picture that ran just under four hours. They took this to Riverside, in the orange country, surprised fans there with a sneak preview. With them was Jock Whitney, who had not seen the film before. When the picture ended, tears were streaming down his face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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