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Judging by the record of prize rookies, he had about a 50-50 chance of making good. In 1924, the papers were full of the Athletics' Paul Strand, who cost them $75,000 and didn't last the season; in 1940, it was the Athletics' Benny McCoy, now no longer in the major leagues; in 1941, it was the Cubs' "Mad Russian" Lou Novikoff, who has since gone back to the Pacific Coast League where he came from. There had also been publicized rookies who fared better: 1926's Mel Ott, 1937's Bobby...
...Hope. The leaders in developing the new sulfa treatment were Dr. Faget and world-famed Leprologist George H. McCoy, head of Louisiana State University's preventive medicine department. (They long ago dropped the traditional chaulmoogra oil as worthless.) Because leprae bacilli are tough, and most of Carville's patients are in advanced stages of the disease, recovery is slow. But heavy daily injections of Promin (or doses of Diasone or Promizole pills) gradually clear out the bacilli, reduce swellings, heal lesions...
...Football Numerals--William Almy, 3rd, Douglas H. T. Bradlee, Frederic A. Crafts, Jr., Robert B. Forsyth, George W. Goodrich, Jr., Captain Richard T. Guidera, William K. Hickey, Robert L. Kelley, James B. Kenary, William L. Kiely, Jr., Peirce H. Leavitt, Jr., Daniel A. Marangiello, Armando D. Mazzone, Donald C. McCoy, William I. McCullough, Jr., James C. Merkle, Harold J. Moffle, M. Endicott Peabody, Jr., Howard S. Reed Gordon B. Stensrud, Alan A. Stone, Donald E. Trimble, Lawrence W. Ward, Chester H. Cramton, Jr., and Manager Frank S. Jones...
Harvard substitutions: ends, Almy, McCoy; tackles, Stensrud, Stone, McCollough; guards, Kelley, Keily; center, Peabody; backs, Goodrich, Marangiello, Crafts, Merkle...
...lineups: Harvard '50s Dartmouth '50s Maggone le barker Leavitt lt Brown Guidera lg Richmond Stensrud c Row McCoy rg Fisher Reed rt Cavanaugh MacCollough ro Cogswell Kenary qb Perry Crafts lhb Schales Reiner rhb Ferguson Goodrich fb Gates