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Only in exceptional cases do you find a man who truly stars in more than one sport, and further, leads you to believe he would shine in anything. Jim Thorpe, of course, is Olympian in this respect, but here have been others, too. People like Bob Mathias and Glenn Davis. People like John White...
...into the slush. Their feelings were mixed. Joe Martin was impressed. Colorado's Democratic Senator Ed Johnson cracked: "The general character of the general's report was very general." Ike had given them no ringing phrases, no new facts or figures. The discourse contained none of that Olympian reporting with which Winston Churchill was accustomed to bolster his great wartime addresses...
...secure and honored in his high place as one of the foremost men of English letters. In 1948, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature and the Order of Merit (one of the highest British orders, limited to 24 members). In his critical essays, he has rendered Olympian judgments. Fellow critics swarm about Critic Eliot like an army of Lilliputians, trying to tie him down to some systematic "school"; when he stirs to reverse one of his previous unfavorable decisions (as he has been known to do, notably in the case of Milton), the swarm is agog for months...
...Frank, a fellow Olympian from Yale, placed second in the shot with a toss f 50 ft., 6 and three quarter in., edging out the Crimson's Jeff Tootell who threw 48 ft., 8 and three-quarter...
...Phil Murray, long defender of the rights of the Reds, who rendered the final, Olympian judgment: "There is enough room in the C.I.O. movement to differ about many subjects . . . plenty of room, plenty of room. But there is no room for Communism...