Word: leon
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...Massive Leon Hart, 21, an end for Notre Dame, won the Maxwell Memorial Trophy award as college football's player of the year. Although he still has two more games to play, rival pro leagues were bracing to bid for the tall (6 ft. 4½ in.), rugged (252 lbs.) lad from Turtle Creek, Pa. In the All-America Conference, the Baltimore Colts had rights to him. In the National Football League, clubs drew lots a fortnight ago. Six men made wry faces, but Coach "Bo" McMillin of the Detroit Lions clutched his slip of paper as though...
...Tito, incontestably . . . LEON E. NEFF Tucson, Ariz...
...Sleeper. Most Americans think of malaria as a tropical disease, says Leon J. Warshaw in Malaria: the Biography of a Killer, published this week (Rinehart; $3.75). Actually, says Dr. Warshaw, the disease has struck from the Arctic to Patagonia. Once known as "the shakes," it was rife a century ago throughout most of the U.S. Dr. Warshaw, a New York diagnostician, estimates the number of U.S. sufferers today as high as 4,000,000. But no one knows just how many there are, because malaria is a skilled mimic, imitating the symptoms of other diseases...
Despite its gummy spots, e.g., a trite pep talk by Chaplain Leon Ames explaining to a battle-hardened gang of veterans why they are fighting, Battleground is the sternest studio-made war film since The Story of GI Joe. On the debit side, each soldier is given a bit of colorful routine that is tiresomely underlined every time the soldier is seen: Private Douglas Fowley loses or clicks his store-bought teeth; ex-Editor John Hodiak mourns over the fact that his wife in Sedalia knows more about the battle than he does. But Director William Wellman threads...
...period the midshipmen made a game of it. Then Notre Dame's first-stringers ripped off three touchdowns in 8½ minutes, and Leahy went to work. He pulled out towering (6 ft. 4½ in.) Right End Leon Hart, perhaps the best all-round football player in the business, benched Tackle Jim Martin and gave All-America Fullback Emil ("Red") Sitko the rest of the afternoon off. By scraping the bottom of his substitute barrel and forbidding the use of the forward pass, Leahy held Notre Dame scoreless in the fourth period; But the score was already...