Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admit that I'm an avid Cardinal fan and that Stan Musial is my favorite player, but even if all that weren't true, I'd still think Ernest Hamlin Baker's Sept. 5 cover one of the cutest and cleverest I have ever seen...
Cinemactress Ginger Rogers, 38, decided to divorce third husband Jack Briggs, 29, onetime movie bit player, after 6½ years of marriage. Not only did he "refuse to come home at a decent hour like a good husband should," Ginger complained, but he never even produced "a good, solid excuse...
Mirrors & Backboards. To be able to master the T, says Leahy, his boys must first kindle a "burning desire" to learn. One of his psychological stunts consists of having a player look into a mirror and ask himself "if he is giving 100% for his teammates and his school." Since deception is the crux of the T, faking is pounded into Notre Dame backs along with the other fundamentals. In practicing fakes, Leahy's quarterbacks must almost deceive themselves - they have to stare at the man they are faking to so intently that, afterwards, they can tell Coach Leahy...
...kids around Chicago's tough, slummy Division Street had a game called Let Her Fly. It was easy to learn, and it was a dandy game because it made the winner feel good and the loser feel terrible. All the player had to do was wrap up some garbage, sneak up on his opponent and slam it in his face. But the play had to be fair & square. Just before the pitch the thrower had to yell...
Saxophone & Type. A onetime coal-miner, logger, ranch hand, construction worker and saxophone player, Tennessee-born Will Harrison broke into journalism in Gallup, N. Mex., where he was stranded in 1932. He worked without...