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DIED. Pat O'Brien, 83, who played Irish cops and priests, soldiers and football coaches in some 80 films; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. His most memorable performance was as Notre Dame's famed coach in Knute Rockne, in which he exhorts the team to "go out and win one for the Gipper," played by Ronald Reagan...
...stars. Western Hero Tom Mix gave young Bill a cowboy hat, and at a dinner given by his grandfather, Bill and Shirley Temple were made honorary marshals. Despite this childhood exposure to movie stars, Clark never saw a Reagan film until last year, when the President finally showed him Knute Rockne-All American in the White House screening room...
...years before his death last January, Smith lost some of the hop on his high hard one. Unable to get out to the ballpark as much, he tried to compensate with guile and memory. By then most of the old sports mob-Joe Louis, Knute Rockne, Grantland Rice and the incomparable saloonkeeper Toots Shor-had been written up on the obituary page. Smith's own goodbyes, collected in To Absent Friends, are enough to make an umpire cry. One of the most poignant was composed for the sportswriter John Lardner: "This is a loss to the living, to every...
...reading this article you must have played in one of the two House football games which took place yesterday, because not a heck of a lot was riding on them except--as Knute Rockne would say--pride...
...reality hits like a sledgehammer. There is "Dutch" Reagan, the Saturday voice out of the cornfields, bringing the Big Ten football games. There is Drake McHugh of Kings Row, right off the screen of the Grand Theater, and Lieut. George Custer from Santa Fe Trail and the Gipper from Knute Rockne, All American and a hundred other boyhood flashbacks. There too is the President of the U.S., still the most powerful single authority in the world...