Word: mccoys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Devil Anse Hatfield was a tall bearded man with round shoulders and a slight stoop, grey eyes, bushy eyebrows, a hooked nose. He was the father of 12 children. Randolph McCoy was 20 years older, tall, kindly, broad-shouldered, with sullen grey eyes and a full beard and mustache. He had 13 children. Devil Anse built his cabin on the edge of West Virginia, at a point where Peter Creek flows into Tug Fork. Across the Tug in Kentucky, up Blackberry Creek to Hatfield Branch, then up the steep mountain slopes to the ridge at Turkeyfoot-seven or eight miles...
...next fall, he merely shrugged in indecision. But Al McCoy, once Harlow's aide and now talent scout for the professional Boston Yanks, said at once that Dick will scout for some Ivy League team. McCoy sounded sure of himself, and the strongest indication is that Harlow will go to Columbia because of his great friendship for Lou Little. With his former assistants Margarita and Jacunski at Yale, this presence at Columbia would mean that at least two of Art Valpey's '48 rivals would have the inside word on Crimson personnel...
Speaking of Yale, Harlow said, "I know everything about Herman Hickman and he's a good coach." McCoy added, "Hickman may look easy going, but remember he played at Tennessee where they like them rough, tough, and nasty." As for the new football rules making interior linemen eligible as pass receivers Harlow whistled and said, "You know, this changes the whole game of football. This makes a man to man defense absolutely impossible...
...Killer McCoy (MGM) is a slum boy (Mickey Rooney) who becomes a ranking boxer. He falls in love with a finishing-school girl (Ann Blyth) who does not realize that her father (Brian Donlevy) is a big-time gambler. The rest of the story runs true to type. The hero's father is a no-account souse (nicely played by James Dunn); and whenever the laughter, tears or plot complications get too tiresome, there's always another fight to watch. The whole picture is so disarmingly old-fashioned that it is almost likable-but not quite...
Tentative committees to teach Dunster House members the four sports have already been set up, the committee announced, with the specific purpose "to lay the foundations for extracurricular clubs on the House level." The three man committee of William Gold '49, William E. Jackson '47, and William E. McCoy '49 is already seeking suggestions for other courses...