Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Play poker with old cronies...
...Work & Play...
Fordham is through with football's big time, said its president, the Rev. Robert I. Gannon. It will still play intercollegiate games, but "does not want ever again a football team rated among the nation's ten heaviest. It doesn't do us any good financially, scholastically, socially or athletically," Father Gannon said. "We are not interested in providing business for the gambling fraternity and we are not interested in the sports writers . . . the tyrants of tyrants. We are interested in staging contests for our students, the alumni, friends and those on the subway circuit who cross...
Anyone who says that professional football lacks the old college try will get an argument out of Paul Brown, coach of Cleveland's pro Browns. He has made it his business to see that his men enjoy the game as much as the paycheck. "The greatest professionals play for pleasure," he insists. "I have probably the most amateur professional team in captivity...
...Germany, Yehudi Menuhin had fiddled for an all Allied audience, and for an all German one. He had also played a charity concert with Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler, who has only recently been pronounced de-Nazified. But Yehudi wanted to play also for his own people...