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This intense concern with the near mythical "scholar-athlete" has, however filled some officials with disgust. They are tired of actively seeking after this elusive "glamour-boy" and feel that many a student who doesn't handle a pigskin with an particular adoptness is being ignored and shoved into the shadows...
...Pigskin Parade. In Mount Vernon, Wash., police nabbed Robber George Brodeur, who happily told them: "I'm glad you got me. I'm cold, I'm hungry, and I want to get back to McNeil Island [federal penitentiary] in time for spring football practice...
...Paulo's freewheelers, the biggest and freest is Count Francisco Matarazzo Jr., 51, who may well enjoy the world's largest personal income (after taxes). From his pigskin-paneled countinghouse above Sáo Paulo's Viaducto do Chá, the count* runs his 300 enterprises (textiles, cereals, shipping, refining) in the style of a 16th century Florentine prince. Big, bleak and impeccably dressed, the count operates from a deep couch in the corner of his immense office. Across the room is a board with vertical lines of electric buttons. At a sign from the count...
...last week's football game between Georgia Tech and L.S.U., the ball looked like any other pigskin.* Only it wasn't leather; it was the first rubber football used in a big-time intercollegiate game...
...wholesome thump of foot on pigskin and the blare of 25,000 brass bands sounded over the land. Yet in the autumn of 1951, even the appetite for football was soured by the breath of scandal. More serious was the fact that investigations of organized crime growing out of the Kefauver hearings were getting nowhere. In New York a swarthy little gambler called Harry Gross insolently defied the law to do its worst, and the district attorney could only weep in helpless anger...