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...senior this year (he is a Navy veteran), Wally wears his swimming fame lightly, but diligently grinds through 2,000 yards of daily practice. Iowa Coach David Armbruster says his star pupil has "a natural, aggressive heart," and better yet, "horses under the hood." Wally's own formula, he says, is knowing when to pull out when other swimmers are relaxing, and "usually that's enough to sneak me in." Swimming that way, he managed to sneak in ahead of ex-Yaleman Alan Ford at London last year; but he has yet, swimming that way, to sneak inside...
...Grow Old. Masson was once the unwilling prize pupil of Fresco Painter Puvis de Chavannes. "I loathe frescoes," he said, "and I have never done one since." During the '20s he mounted Montmartre, began painting the accomplished macabra-dabra on which his reputation rests...
...familiar faces under baseball caps combined with a few of the familiar faces over crimson jerseys in a teacher-star pupil demonstration. Batch Jordan's protege, Howie Houston, illustrated The Offensive Stance for the linemen. Chuck Glynn demonstrated How to lead a Spinning Fullback for the centers. Bill Henry performed in Signal Calling: Rhythm and Clarity for the quarterbacks...
...grandson of a college president (Alexis Caswell of Brown) and the son of another (James Burrill Angell of the University of Michigan), James Angell had spent his whole life on campuses. He had been a pupil of John Dewey at Michigan, a student of William James at Harvard, finally joined the faculty of the University of Chicago. He became one of the top psychologists in the U.S., known in the academic world as the "creator of psychologists...
...hawk-faced Renaissance condottiere, Bartolommeo Colleoni, in Venice, and his elegant bronze figure of David astride Goliath's head; also for the fact that he was Leonardo da Vinci's first teacher and was said to have turned from painting to sculpture when his precocious pupil surpassed...