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...also no surprise that he would pick Joe Namath as the quarterback for whom he has the most respect because Namath plays injured. "A guy's got a lot of guts to go out there week after week knowing that the next time he gets hit, it may be the last time because he might not be able to walk again," Plunkett says...
Reading defenses and throwing passes may be Joe Namath's specialties, but even he admits to their limited applicability in dealing with life's more basic formations. Broadway Joe gets jittery nerves just like everyone else. That is why, after a close game or a punishing workout, it is not the hot shower or whirlpool bath that Joe likes to ease into but a nice, deep meditative trance. He murmurs a secret word over and over again until the repetition, just like a massive tackle, blocks out his consciousness and leaves his mind refreshingly blank...
...Lincoln Center. Shrewdly, the management announced in advance that she would dance at every performance; otherwise, seeing this uneven cadre of Bolshoiviks -actually, they constitute less than one-third of the entire troupe-without her would be as interesting as watching the New York Jets without Joe Namath...
...Harvard quarterback, slated for number two duty behind Joe Namath's understudy Bob Davis, is anxious to take a crack at the starting line-up. "Davis is coming in number one, but a lot depends on how much I can prove to them in camp," Crone said...
...Casablanca James Morris seemed one of the least likely people on earth-possibly excepting Joe Namath-who would want to start life anew in a skirt. A brilliant writer, celebrated and comfortably off, he was the apparently happy father of four children. Morris had been an intelligence officer in a crack British cavalry regiment and a glamorous globetrotting correspondent. In 1953, for instance, he climbed 20,000 feet up Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary's group and scooped the world for the Times of London...