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There was the time a struggling Notre Dame team came East and whipped Army 7-0. Bill Cunningham said the reason was that years before, when Notre Dame's immortal George Gipp lay dying, he had called for Knute Rockne. "If things ever get too tough for Notre Dame," Gipp was supposed to have said, "ask the boys to score one for Gipper." Rockne had saved this one for a special occasion. On the day when Notre Dame met Army, he let the boys have it between halves. According to Bill Cunningham, as Notre Dame's back plunged...
...crew, started her sinking fast. All hands got safely into lifeboats. One of the first ships to reach the rescue scene was the Southern Cross. Bitterly criticized Tycoon Wenner-Gren became an international hero as he picked up 200 survivors, started back with them toward Ireland. The Norwegian freighter Knute Nelson picked up 800 more. British warboats raced toward the spot where the Athenia was left to sink. World headlines screamed, GERMANS TORPEDO BRITISH LINER...
...industry by introducing talkies in 1927, has since scored as a pacemaker in gangster films and biographies, is now the spearhead of Hollywood's biographical thrust. Some Warner projects: Paul Muni in The Life of Beethoven, James Cagney in The Story of John Paul Jones, biographies of Knute Rockne, John Dillinger, Hitler-baiting Pastor Martin Niemoller...
...this spring and summer read like headings in an encyclopedia. Every major studio has at least one biography already in production, more on the production line. Under way are Young Mr. Lincoln, Stanley and Livingstone, Beethoven, Man of Conquest (Sam Houston), Man in the Iron Mask, Juarez, Brigham Young, Knute Rockne. Promised for next season are Mme Curie, Thomas Edison, Rudolph Valentino, Steinmetz, Lillian Russell, Simon Bolivar, Nobel. Last week the first spring shoot of this bumper crop appeared on U. S. screens. The biggest job to date of Hollywood's sole socialite director, Henry Codman ("Hank") Potter...
Studebaker Corp. has a neat biography. Founded in 1852 by two bearded brothers who made wagons, it is the U.S.'s oldest vehicle maker. Its net sales once reached $166,000,000. It once employed famed Knute Rockne as a sort of supersalesman. When the company failed in 1933, after three years of refusing to admit the existence of Depression I, its grand old man, President Albert R. Erskine, went home and shot himself. Later, under former Vice Presidents Paul Hoffman and Harold S. Vance, it became the first automobile company to reorganize under famed Section...