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Socialist: for President, Norman Thomas, 63 (for the sixth time) ; for Vice President, Tucker P. Smith, professor of economics at Michigan's Olivet College. Advocating public ownership of natural resources, basic industries and credit, the Socialists denounced Henry Wallace as "an apologist for the slave state of Russia and the preacher of peace by blind appeasement." The party polled 884,000 votes in 1932, dropped...
...first year at pro football, Rickey said: "Modern football is speed. Give me four players-a center, a good passing back and two tall, sprinting ends-and you can have the rest." Voyles outbid the National League's Pittsburgh Steelers for a "good passing back" named Bob Chappuis, Michigan's 1947 All-America (the price: about...
...Left Halfback Hunchy Hoernschemeyer and veteran Fullback Mickey Cornier. Said Mickey, who is 29 and balding: "There's spirit in pro football, but it's cold spirit. You produce, or you don't get your pay." At Ebbets Field, under the arc lights, the band played Michigan as the 900-man Michigan Club of New York gave Bob Chappuis a scroll wishing him "the best of luck." But Chappuis, the top Dodger name, saw little action: he had missed three weeks of practice to play in the All-Star game (TIME, Aug. 30), and didn...
Last fall it would have been a dream team. For his College All-Star squad, Notre Dame's Coach Frank Leahy had lined up such 1947 gridiron greats as Michigan's Bob Chappuis, Notre Dame's Johnny Lujack and Mississippi's Chuck Conerly. In Chicago last week, before a crowd of 101,220, the collegians (most of whom would shortly be pros) kicked off against the Chicago Cardinals, 1947 pro champions of the National Football League...
Last November, with help from the therapists and a Detroit Conservatory professor, Ernest started something bigger. Last week at the Michigan State fair grounds he heard the Detroit Symphony Orchestra play excerpts from his first symphony, to an audience of 10,000. The music was pretty murky in spots, and full of borrowings from Tchaikovsky. Said Conductor Valter Poole, "It interested me as psychiatry, not as music." But the audience gave Ernest an ovation. Said he in a bashful curtain speech: "Ladies and gentlemen, I enjoyed the playing of the symphony . . . Have confidence in mental hospitals-it did me good...