Word: lipscombe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every youngster old enough to hold a football wanted to be a Y. A. Tittle or a Johnny Unitas. "They see the pros on TV," says Iowa Coach Jerry Burns, "and they pattern themselves after the glamour boys. Nobody wants to be a Rosie Grier or a Big Daddy Lipscomb." Conditioned by the heart-stopping excitement of the pro game, fans implored college coaches to pass, pass, pass. At least one university head joined the chorus. Chancellor Edward Litchfield of the University of Pittsburgh ordered Pitt Coach John Michelosen to open up. "Three things I find intolerable," Litchfield said. "Winning...
...newest hero of an art that has made a fetish out of authenticity. Last week he was on the road again, having survived a crucial audience of aficionados at the Monterey Folk Festival, competing with such champions of folk-and fakelore as The Weavers, Bill Monroe, Mance Lipscomb, and Peter, Paul and Mary. Nearly everyone sang better, and The Weavers drew more applause. But Bob Dylan was there with three of his songs, and when he sang them, a crowd of 5,200 rewarded him with earnest and ardent applause...
...Died. Eugene Alan ("Big Daddy") Lipscomb, 31, fearsome all-pro colossus (6 ft. 6 in., 288 Ibs., 7-ft. arm spread) for the Baltimore Colts from 1956 to 1960 and then for the Pittsburgh Steelers, the "fastest big, big man" in football; of suspected narcotics poisoning; in Baltimore. Someone once asked him why he solicitously helped up the opponents he had flattened. "I don't want people or kids to think Big Daddy is a cruel man," he explained...
...question of how much time faculty members put into the freshman seminar program was raised by William N. Lipscomb Jr., professor of Chemistry. Lipscomb said last night that the Conway committee had not considered--"as indeed it was not supposed to"--whether there were alternatives to freshman seminars which could more profitably employ the time of faculty members...
...perfectly willing to go along with the center now," Lipscomb said. "We regard it as a substantial improvement, especially at the undergraduate level, where it was aimed...