Word: players
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that?" he demanded from an unseen watcher high in the stands over Palo Alto's Stanford Stadium. Coach Hugh Duffy Daugherty. master craftsman of the most intricate offensive in modern football, was at his appointed task of trying to keep track of every block and tackle of every player on the field...
Analyst or parlay-card player, bettor or bookie, all these men are really matching their wits with such oddsmakers as Leo Hirschfield. To hear Hirschfield tell it he and his handicappers are simply exercising their skill at prediction. Last week, sportsman that he is, he even quoted a price on the election: Eisenhower at 3½ to 1. "Lucky I'm not a betting man," said he. "Because, frankly. I want the Democrats to win. But what are you gong to do? That's the odds...
...star on the premises. Randolph Frederick Edward Spencer Churchill is 45, greying, a choleric soldier of fortune, ladies' club lecturer, sometime correspondent for the London Evening Standard and only son of Sir Winston. "And now," said Hal March, "the time has come to play the game." Big Game-Player Churchill picked his favorite category: No. 6-the English language...
This is to thank whom it may concern for the H-R Mixer. I enjoyed it immensely and love all Harvard men dearly--especially the drunken football player who thickly asks you "Ain't they got no rock and roll in this here town?"; the prep school boy who arrives with more money than manners and will no doubt leave with more of the former and even less of the latter; the Big Man from Texas who tells you how to remember his name by shortending it to A. Wolf, and then with a great little gleam...
...even a Democratic loss does not mean the end for Estes Kefauver, especially if he can show his strength by carrying some farm states against the formidable Republican team. He will still be in the Senate, and, having run on the national ticket, may be known as a team player instead of a loner. He faces a 1960 campaign for reelection, and may therefore have to skip his quadrennial fight for the presidential nomination. But he is relatively young, and there are other years and other elections. The chances are good that Iowa farmers, New Hampshire lumberjacks and California avocado...