Word: quigley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Teacher. In Providence, John A. Quigley's nine-month term in jail for drunken driving was reduced to three months when a prominent attorney testified: "He's the fellow who showed me how to get sober in Alcoholics Anonymous...
Mikan himself had thought of studying for the priesthood, but dropped the idea about the time he graduated from Chicago's Quigley Preparatory Seminary. The late Coach George Keogan of Notre Dame looked him over as a basketball prospect, but decided that he was too awkward. He decided on a pre-law course at Chicago's De Paul University. There, Coach Ray Meyer made him shadow-box and skip rope until Mikan panted: "What do you want, Coach, my blood?" Short, husky Coach Meyer is still hard to satisfy. Says he of Mikan: "He'd be great...
...Brooklyn's Postmaster Edward J. Quigley announced that dogs, cats, snakes and rabbits may not be sent through the mail, but that postal authorities will accept alligators (up to 20 inches), bees, turtles, frogs, horned toads, and certain types of worms (provided they are packed in moist moss...
...mediocre workout was somewhat offset by news from the medical room, where Dr. Thomas B. Quigley announced that Captain Ken O'Donnell might be able to play against Yale Saturday for more than the one play needed to win a letter. No explanation was offered for the miraculous recovery of O'Donnell, who allegedly broke his leg against Princeton less than two weeks...
...nearby Dillon Field House, Dr. Quigley's team physicians made the rest of the news of the day by releasing their final pre-game medical report. Only end Walt Coulson and reserve center Steve Howe will be unavailable for the Bruin contest while erstwhile first-string center Don Stone was officially freed by the doctors yesterday after a month of restriction...