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Last week, Oregon State's Coach Lon Stiner confessed that his real field general is a salaried alumnus, who sits high above the playing field in the press box. Ex-Halfback Bob Dethman of O.S.C.'s 1942 Rose Bowl team keeps a close eye on the opponents' weaknesses. When he decides what play to call, he telephones to the bench and a substitute relays it to the Oregon State huddle. Says Stiner, who is a member of the rules committee: "All coaches are doing some signal calling. . . . That substitution rule has to be changed...
Coach Stiner says that his quarterback on the field doesn't mind having instructions arrive by special messenger: "He's so busy blocking, or carrying the ball." Two weeks ago, against Stanford, Oregon State's press-coop quarterback directed three offensive drives, two of which resulted in touchdowns. Last week, Oregon State did not have the quarterbacking that U.C.L.A. had, nor the team. Score: U.C.L.A. 27, Oregon State...
This fall the North American duck population, which has gone down steadily for three years, is down to about 110 million.† In alarm, some states imposed a midseason holiday on hunting (in Oregon, the first half of the season ended last week). The U.S. Fish & Wild Life Service cut the daily limit of ducks per hunter from ten to seven-and now to four. But at some U.S. duck-hunting spots last week, there were not four ducks to be seen, much less shot...
Amber Over Tokyo. Mott asks, but cannot answer, why the field of popular fiction has been so narrow. There have been no lastingly popular American novels on industry, the clipper ships, the rail roads, the Oregon Trail, immigration, the discovery of gold or oil, the movies, radio, or the New Deal. Readers could get good, solidly based historical novels on the fall of Rome or the battle of Waterloo, but not of the Lewis & Clark expedition...
Stereotyped into a great covered-wagon cliche, the early history of the American West often becomes a twisted fantasy of half-truths for a casual student of the pioneer era. American authors have universally glorified the Oregon Trial to the practical exclusion of all else. Multiplying with rabbit like precision, their books are the foundation of a narrow and inaccurate impression of western expansion. The title "pioneer" becomes exclusive property of the settler and the drive for a continent rests on the time-table of a wagon train snaking its way westward. "Across the Wide Missouri" deals in more basic...