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When Earle ("Greasy") Neale quit as Yale's football brains in 1940, the pitiful Philadelphia (pro) Eagles seemed beyond human help. Not so, thought Greasy Neale, who had worked many a minor miracle in his earlier coaching days.* With high hopes but no real prospects, Greasy took over the...
Grace Moore's recent spleen on faithless wives of overseas servicemen [TiME, Aug. 6] just barely deserves the dignity of a reply. Nothing is so pitiful as a woman maligning her own sex, and at a time when womanhood should stand together for protection from those who think in...
Assault by Trickery. There were other legends-of the forgers who assaulted the bank by trickery (and, until the middle of the 19th Century, risked death in the doing). Most pitiful of the swindlers was a young clerk named Philip Whitehead. He presented a fraudulent bill on a city firm...
taking 51 lickings in 68 games. Whether he lasts until the Phillies' postwar plans blossom-wealthy, youthful Owner Bob Carpenter aims to peel off the greenbacks as soon as ballplayers become buyable again-depends on what he makes of his present pitiful club.
By last week, the smile that helped make Ott everybody's ballplayer was being strained to the limit. After racing to the longest lead of any big league team in a quarter century (25 wins against seven defeats), his Giants fell flat on their faces. They lost 21 out...