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...success. Air Force Major General Benjamin O. Davis Jr., spent most of his four years at West Point as the only Negro there, often felt that he was spoken to only when someone was barking a command. Chicago Dermatologist Theodore Lawless fought off subtle rebuffs while an instructor at Northwestern University. When his hand was to be photographed giving an injection to demonstrate a new technique, he was asked to wear a surgical glove so his dark hand would not "be seen. "I said, 'Hell no,' " he recalls, "and I never...
...Oregon Halfback Mel Renfro, who had cut his wrist on a mirror-and drafted Texas Tackle Scott Appleton instead. Coaches cackled happily when they landed a prospect that the opposition had overlooked. "I like this kid," said Green Bay's Vince Lombardi of his 14th-round choice, Northwestern End Tom O'Grady. "When you talk to him, his eyes light up. Besides, he's six-four, weighs 205 and runs...
Wisconsin 17 Northwestern...
...mill flattery includes tape-recording the professor's lectures, pretending to shift one's major to his field, and inviting the wretch to speak at one sorority house after another. One Northwestern sociologist finds graduate students going in for the "Gemeinschaft attitude"-getting folksy through baby sitting, for example. This puts them on almost unassailable ground: "How can a teacher flunk someone his kids like...
...Ohio State punched across a touchdown with 2 min. 13 sec. to go and edged No. 2-ranked Wisconsin, 13-10. At Evanston, Ill., 150-Ib. Halfback Sherman Lewis picked off a pass for one TD, bolted 87 yds. for another, and Michigan State downed No. 9-ranked Northwestern, 15-7. North Carolina State beat Duke for the first time since 1946, 21-7, and Stanford clobbered Notre Dame, 24-14, for the first time ever. At Cambridge, Mass., Harvard broke Dartmouth's 15-game winning streak, longest in major college football...