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...high school classmate recalls. "We figured he'd be a great lawyer or politician." After high school, Charlie worked as a department-store furniture salesman until a prosperous older cousin, living in Montreal, insisted that gifted Goren go to college. Charlie moved in with the cousin, enrolled at McGill University law school. After finishing up the regular three-year course, stayed on for a postgraduate year before going back to Philadelphia and bluffing his way through the Pennsylvania bar exam. "I had to bluff," he says. "I didn't know anything about Pennsylvania law." A fellow lawyer...
...Last Laugh. They laughed when he first sat down to play. Goren acutely recalls a day at McGill when a girl friend asked him if he played bridge. "I knew that girls play bridge in the afternoon," says Goren, "and I didn't see why I couldn't. I sat down to play and made a complete ass out of myself." Goren's girl laughed at him-and thin-skinned Charlie Goren, late of Philadelphia's slums, was no man to be laughed at. "It was like putting a knife through me," he says...
...some students met representatives of McGill University--in what is generally recognized as the legitimate predecessor of modern football. Since McGill played under rugby rules, the teams agreed to meet twice, first playing the "Boston game" and then the McGill rugby. Harvard won the first match easily, and held the Canadians to a scoreless tie at their own game. A half-dollar admission was charged, and the $250 collected was used by both teams for a drunken orgy...
Editor RALPH McGiLL of the ATLANTA CONSTITUTION...
...best-known Southern newspapers are shaped in the image of their editors-the Arkansas Gazette of Harry Ashmore, the Atlanta Constitution of Ralph McGill, the Greenville Delta Democrat-Times of Mississippi's Hodding Carter. But to many Southern intellectuals, the finest paper in the region is built not around a man, but on a moderate, conscientious approach to racial integration and the self-declared aim "to give the news impartially, without fear or favor." The paper: the Chattanooga Daily Times...