Word: quarterback
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discouraged, though. As a freshman, Larry Brown failed to earn the starting QB job on the frosh team. As a soph, he played fourth-string on the varsity. As a junior, Brownie got a break when the starting quarterback suffered a neck injury in the season opener, and went on to lead the Ivy League in passing and total offense. As a senior, Brown finds himself listed alongside the likes of Penn State's Chuck Fusina and B.C.'s Fred Smerlas in this month's Playboy as one of the top players in the East...
Last week Justice Department officials immediately attacked Rowe's credibility and theorized that he was only out to promote a TV version of his 1976 autobiography, My Undercover Years with the Ku Klux Klan. The film, The Freedom Riders, stars former Dallas Cowboys Quarterback Don Meredith as Rowe, and will be completed within three weeks. But NBC has not yet decided when it will be aired. Said one Justice Department official of the controversy over Rowe: "It's unadulterated crap, all of it. He didn't shoot Liuzzo. He didn't kill a black. He didn...
...remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan, a vintage '40s film that was based on a play entitled--you guessed it--Heaven Can Wait. The new film's script has been updated and altered a bit. For example, the story's hero has been changed from a prizefighter to a quarterback. Heaven Can Wait is clearly a vehicle for Beatty in more ways than one. He is billed as the co-writer, co-director, and naturally, the star. He apparently wanted to cash in on the success of his last effort, Shampoo, by bringing back two of his co-stars...
This delightfully bizarre comedy about life death and love opens as the central character, Joe Pendleton (Beatty), a star quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams, looks as though he is about to suffer a tragic death in a tunnel collision between his bicycle and a truck. A novice heavenly escort, (played by Buck Henry) removes Joe's soul from his body just before the smash-up in order to spare Joe the pain. Of course, the escort does not realize that Joe, being an excellent athlete with quick reflexes, would have avoided the crash and lived for another 50 years...
...Breech showed a big-city flak for business management and a wizardry with figures that propelled him to the chairmanship of North American Aviation Inc. in the early 1930s. After Breech had vitalized the Bendix Aviation Corp, in a single year, a desperate Henry Ford n persuaded him to quarterback Ford's new management team. Breech arrived in 1946 to find what he called an "awkward and stumbling colossus" with an estimated $100 million annual losses. When he stepped down as board chairman in 1960, the company was earning $500 million a year, with $4 billion in new plant...