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...consecutive winning seasons is no small feat, especially when compared to the mediocrity of the past. As Harvard people think excitedly of the next coach, they should remember that even Dartmouth's Bob Blackman produced a loser two years ago-before Yovicsin...
Died. Clark Shaughnessy, 78, football coach who popularized the T-Formation; of a stroke; in Santa Monica, Calif. Shaughnessy introduced the T with its emphasis on the quarterback at Stanford in 1940, and instantly turned a loser (1-7-1 the year before) into an undefeated Rose Bowl victor. The formation transformed the game, and he went on to a brilliant career with half a dozen colleges and pro teams...
...lose her gusto. This is called getting stale. Once in a long while a performer appears who remains as fresh in the road company as she was on opening night. This is called Elly Stone. Oddly enough, in the early years of her career, Elly seemed a sure showbiz loser. In the '50s she sang her way cross-country with her first husband, an itinerant magician. They slept and nearly froze in a Kansas scrap-car lot; they lived on bananas in Florida; they starved; they split. Elly played club dates and even a carnival-all without recognition...
...silent. Malraux: Minister of Culture. The old mullers and brooders, the old definers of crisis, are heard no more in the European novel. For a long time it seemed that there might be no successors. A surprise candidate has now emerged from the wings, an odd figure with a loser's accent and a bizarre past. His earlier books had astonishing power, using dwarfs and drums and scarecrows to explore the nightmare dominion of Nazi Germany and the guilt that followed. To many readers, particularly in the U.S., all this was fascinating. It also seemed very long...
...midi goes to great lengths to look like a loser. Unflattering (except over legs that never quit and hips that never start) and impractical (except to cover up a bad case of knees), the latest dress length seems as anachronistic as the New Look and more of a drag than the bustle...