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...chest." Well-marinated by the time he got to high school, Budd captained his basketball team, played halfback in football, even then ran the 100 in 9.6 sec. When it came time for college, he had his choice of scholarships for football (Princeton, Navy, Ohio State, Syracuse), basketball (Muhlenberg) or track (Nebraska, Villanova). His choice: track and Villanova...
Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, an obese Lutheran minister, was the first Speaker of the House of Representatives and the first functioning head of the U.S. Government; he presided over the 65-member House in New York for a month before President George Washington was inaugurated. Sam Rayburn of Texas served longer as Speaker than any other man: 16 years. From Muhlenberg to McCormack. 45 have ruled as Speakers of the House (one lasted just one day). Some were great men, many were toadies and sycophants, a few were colorful despots. Among the outstanding Speakers...
Hard-Nosed, Hard-Bitten.WhenCoach Schwartzwalder arrived in 1949, Syracuse's chief interest in football was to beat archrival Colgate occasionally. Coach Ben brought with him a 25-5 record, compiled at little Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa., and a determination to revive Syracuse's glory days of the '20s, when the team won 50, lost 11, tied 6 in seven seasons. As a 152-lb. center out of Huntington, he had learned hard-nosed football at West Virginia playing for Coach Greasy Neale, later coach of the pro's world champion Philadelphia Eagles. As a paratrooping major...
Television, according to broadcasters, is intrinsically educational. It broadens young minds and uplifts old ones. Last week a plausible footnote to this plausible theory came from English Instructor Ralph S. Graber of Pennsylvania's Muhlenberg College. TV may open all sorts of vistas, Graber reports, but the quality of its teaching is dubious. The effect on his students, he avers, is "a marked increase in the number of malapropisms and errors in diction...
...evidence, Graber put together a montage of gems from recent themes produced by Muhlenberg freshmen: "Now of days it is quite difficult to find a student who doesn't have a devil-makes-hair attitude and take his educational opportunity for granite. The student does not do his upmost in his studies, nor does he possess the self-insurance necessary for him to face the complexing problems of college...