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...couple of months ago a wiry, bristly man with large ears and a happy Irish face strode into the editorial offices of the New York Sun and asked for a job. The Sun's executives snapped the applicant up. He was mnemonic John Kieran, for 16 years sports columnist for the New York Times, for four and a half years a Shakespeare quoter, birdlore expert, Latin scholar, jingle singer and general know-it-all of Information, Please...
Gruff F. P. A. (Franklin Pierce Adams) opened his mouth, beat out a section of the William Tell overture on his teeth with a pencil. Rumpled John Kieran murmuring "where do you find the bass?" tremoloed Sleepy Hills of Tennessee on a borrowed accordion. Oscar Levant, somewhat nervous, sashayed through a couple of Gershwin preludes on the piano. Clifton Fadiman played pitchman...
...getting trite to speak of Harvard's football coach as "cologist" or "ornithologist" Harlow, but John Kieran has one of the keys to Crimson gridiron success every time he uses that stock description. Dick studies football the way he studies his pet flora and fauna, and has achieved recognition as one of the nation's top experts in both fields. One of his coaching assistants put it this way: "When Dick decides he wants to know about something, he really studies it. Two years ago he got interested in ferns and now he's crossing up the professors...
Yale has practiced it and learned it well this fall. It has taken first-year coach Howie Odell more than the two weeks that the John Kieran of '74 recommended, but it can't be denied that the Eli club of '42 plays it skillfully...
...fourth quarter, M a n e g o l d blocked a Kirkland kick and the Gold Coasters took the ball on the Deacon three. After three line plays failed, Kieran Culliton passed to Al Hartwig for a score...