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...academic standards were high, his squads correspondingly small, onetime Mathematics Professor William Anderson Alexander devised an intricate type of play that few but his apt engineers could have mastered. Ruddy-faced Coach Alex carried his chalk and blackboard to the half-time dressing rooms, substituted diagraming for tear-jerking pep talks. He said rousing up the boys produced mental instability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Coach Alex Steps Down | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

...there is enough manpower to go around, but the shortages are local. Those shortages, which are critical, are now beyond control (see CANADA AT WAR). Various expedients to channel the labor supply-by cutting off raw material to nonessential industries, by ordering draft boards to get tough, by giving pep talks, showing movies, using bluff-have never been adequate and are not adequate now. The U.S. is still larded with the fat of peacetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANPOWER: If the Nation Calls | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

...demanding "a package of 'Stoopies'-the kind you stoop down behind the counter for." Manufacturers of unknown brands were making-and, some thought, selling-hay. A group of doctors learnedly gave a U.P. reporter nine rules for getting along happily without cigarets (least helpful: give yourself a pep talk; maybe you don't want a smoke, after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Try a Pipe | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

CAMP RIDGE, Oct. 6 (BC)--Having done up Brown the soulful strains of "Lamar, Lamar, Lamar," at tonight's pep rally, Crimson supporters will gird their loins to see the Bovine Cowen a play Garrityed to make gran-pappy say, "Geeson, old Eliott to think twice about things, in Casey hopes for a post-season game...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey (sp-a), | Title: Hu Flung Huey Flings 'Em | 10/6/1944 | See Source »

...most dangerous play in high-school football is the second-half kickoff (muscles cool off between the halves, but pep talks heat up enthusiasm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pigskin Premiums | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

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