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...musicians, Charles O'Connell had had enough of his job. As RCA Victor's musical director, "I was solely responsible for virtually every Red Seal record made in America" from 1930 to 1944. He had "played ping-pong most of the night with Jascha Heifetz (a good player and a bad loser); jumped naked and shivering into Albert Spalding's icy pool at 7 a.m. . . . soothed the childish rages of Iturbi . . . softened and diverted the bovine stubbornness of Flagstad; ignored Pons's sulks and Moore's tantrums. . . ." This week, in a book called The Other...
Fullback seems well padded with experience, Mel Friedman saw considerable action last year while Sam Adams was the starting Tufts fullback. John Harris and Bob Forsyth, a lacrosse player last spring, are also in the thick of the fray...
...There was a trumpet player downstairs last year," muttered Scoutt, "whom we tried to isolate in PBH. After the snow fell we never really succeeded." Scoutt appeared a defeated man last night without will to resist, as he sadly admitted that arpeggios and corporate law make an indigestible mixture...
Chappuis scored three of Michigan's touchdowns against Michigan State. Last year he piled up more yardage from running and passing than Michigan's former star, Tom Harmon. By normal standards, sturdy-framed Chappuis is old (24) for a college player, but this is hardly a normal year. A wartime lieutenant, he had been shot down over the Brenner Pass on his 21st mission, and made his way south to the British lines...
Older Faces. Bob Chappuis is by no means the oldest collegiate player around: Michigan also has 31-year-old Tackle Alvin Wistert, brother of two former All-Americas. And New York University has a halfback who is 33. At Mississippi, 23-year-old End Barney Poole, once an Army star, is playing his sixth year of varsity football, by grace of weird eligibility rules. At Iowa City, infants on the sidelines watch their fathers laboring through practice. Ten men on Iowa's squad are married...