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...football maxim has it that no team is any better than its defense. In the Rose Bowl game last week some 100,000 fans and millions of televiewers got a good look at some of the best defensive play of the year. The rugged Southern California line, rated one of the best in the nation, stopped the pile-driving running of Wisconsin's Alan ("The Horse") Ameche five times within its 30-yd. line. Running into the same kind of opposition (a total of 48 yds. through the hard-tackling Wisconsin line), Southern Cal turned to another football fundamental...
...Polo Grounds for the rematch, the first really big gate Robinson ever attracted. Battered and bleeding, his timing way off, Robinson made a dramatic tenth-round comeback and knocked Turpin out. Robinson's last ambition then was to win the light-heavyweight (175 Ibs.) title from Joey Maxim (see below). Spotting his opponent 15 Ibs., Robinson, 32, had the title all but won when he was felled by heat prostration last September...
...morally simpleminded" standards of the legion, Kerr continues, would automatically ban the filming of much of Nobel Prizewinner François Mauriac's work, or that of English Novelist Graham Greene, both Catholics. Concludes Kerr, after recalling a maxim quoted by French Catholic Paul Claudel ("God writes straight with crooked lines"): "Art without crooked lines is unnatural art-inevitably inferior art. And in its production not only the creative mind is betrayed; the Catholic mind, in its fullness, in its scope, in its centricity, is betrayed as well . . . We are moving closer and closer to the sort of stand...
Boxing (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS Radio & TV). Joey Maxim v. Archie Moore for the light-heavyweight championship...
...ambassador." The study of history, therefore, is essentially the study of conscience. "The weight of opinion is against me," cried Acton to his students, "when I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong...