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...natural competitor, Greasy has taken a crack at big-league baseball (as an outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds), coached college football from Marietta College to Yale, including W. & J.'s 1922 Rose Bowl team. His pros regard him as something special-a coach who mixes with his men, plays cards with them, kids them, takes their kidding, fines them and is even ready to tussle with them. Says big Al Wistert, his All-America tackle: "You can't help playing hard for a guy like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Eagles at Work | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Clay's home town of Marietta, Ga. would add the flourishes this week with a big barbecue and public reception. Then Lucius Clay, retired after 32 years of service, would be able to do what he's wanted to do for a long time-"just . . . get in an automobile and go somewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Soldier's Return | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Peggy Wood, who must have delighted theatergoers of yesteryear in "Naughty Marietta" and "Bittersweet," is still very delightful to watch, both for her graceful beauty and her thorough characterization of the well-meaning, suspicious mother-in-law who almost wreeks her daughter's marriage. As her sister-in-law and complete opposite, June Walker is bouncy and very funny. The kind of woman who was once called "ente as a bug's car," she is now pudgy and painted, given to wearing fluffy mules around the house because of "foot trouble" but who nevertheless takes samba lessons. Most...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Playgoer | 4/15/1949 | See Source »

...defeat after defeat piled up (at the hands of Washington University, Marietta, Franklin & Marshall, Case), Wild Bill's squad lost weight. From despair? No, from studying. Says Wild Bill: "When they get a rubdown from the trainer, they are propped up on both elbows reading a textbook. On trips, they study both ways on the train or bus. I'm surprised they don't carry their books to the bench and study when they're not in the game. Probably haven't thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Broken Record | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...those monotonous speeches, it meant thousands of votes for "Hummon." Don't forget that the South is basically defensive in its thinking. It knows it has no friends outside the South, so it thinks it can counter its enemies by electing people like Long and Talmadge . . . SEATON OWENS Marietta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 25, 1948 | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

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