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...horsemanship. He was even pretty good with bow & arrow. But two years after he hung up his cleats, a reporter discovered him working with a pick & shovel for $4 a day. Jim's fondness for firewater had helped to get him in the fix. Ever a happy optimist Jim figured, "I'll come out of this, and I'll do some saving when I do." Ten years later-after Jim had sold the movie rights to his life story for $1,500-his second wife charged him with "excessive drinking," divorced him and got custody of their...
...broadcasters interviewed this correspondent for "the student's view" of Conant. Later, using his speech "A Chemist Looks into His Crystal Ball," the station interpreted it as a sign that Conant is an optimist in the good sense of the word...
...pass defense is Yale's only weakness, and even there it has the edge over Harvard. The passing and coach are excellent, the line good; the running above average. For the eternal Crimson optimist busy figuring an upset victory down to the last point, this warning--Parcells, who tied the 1951 game up in the last minute with the extra point, is back...
...harness racing season two years ago, Dunbar W. Bostwick sadly contemplated Chris Spencer, his eight-year-old trotter. Soon after setting a track record of 3 min. 10½ sec. in the 1½-mile Gotham trot, the aging gelding had gone lame and looked finished. But Optimist Bostwick had observed that trotters swim at a trotting gait. He reasoned that Chris might get back his bounce if he could exercise his legs without jarring them on a hard track...
...Must Create Europe. Dapper Jean Monnet, 63, a rare hardheaded optimist in a pessimistic Europe, intends all this. "We are not dealing merely with the pooling of coal and steel," he observed last week. "We are creating a new political reality." No man is better qualified to do the job of creating, for the "Little Howitzer," as his friends call him, has the driving power of an armor-piercing shell. When he gets hold of an idea, he never lets go. "If he were put under an anesthetic," said a friend last week, "he would still keep repeating...