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There is little chance of a talent shortage at Notre Dame, with its magic football name and its many devoted alumni. Notre Dame's supply system is larger but looser than most other U.S. colleges'. GHQ at South Bend gets constant reports on good prospects (twelve Notre Dame grads now coach pro clubs, 150 are at colleges, 600 at high and prep schools). In the off season, Leahy and six assistant coaches make a swing of 48 states as guest speakers at smokers and gymnasium get-togethers. They know what to do when a likely young fullback says...
...Century. Standouts were six casual masterpieces by the 15th-Century Florentines, who drew mostly in sepia and silverpoint (indelible). Trained to make each stroke right the first time, men like Michelangelo, Filippino Lippi and Verrochio looked long and hard before translating their models' flesh into thin lines. Their looser chalk studies, like Michelangelo's Libyan Sibyl, showed the same supreme accuracy...
Last week a cat slipped out of the bag in 176 U.S., South American and Canadian newspaper offices: "Captain Midi," the spy currently in the foreground of boyish Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates, will soon be revealed as a masquerading woman. The cat-looser: a "profile" of Caniff in The New Yorker...
...Looser Bodies. The Cincinnati Reds, who paid Miller $3,000 for a month's work last spring and finished second in the National League, endorse his technique. Oklahoma University had a mediocre basketball team until he relaxed the players. Then in their final game of the season they lost to Wyoming (National Collegiate Champions) by only three points. Miller also loosened up Tulsa's 1942 football team-undefeated until it lost to Tennes see in the Sugar Bowl, 14-7. He has been paid $100 an hour for private lessons...
...organization of the field is looser than any other because of the nature of the subject matter. The main work is conducted under competent section men who assist in the laboratories. There is no tutorial and no need for it since a student can get all the additional advice he needs from his section men, and with no specific concentration there is no need for correlation...