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...successful summer camp, the boys seem to thrive on the school's theory that esprit de corps enhances the spirit of study. "I didn't know how to work at home," says one first-classman. "Here you learn to think and reason, not just learn things by rote...
...went, all through the day and into the night. Groucho Marx showed up, and so did Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick, Hugh O'Brian, Hugh Downs, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Phil Silvers, Hal March, Jack Dempsey, Rocky Marciano. Kyle Rote. Charley Conerly. Frank Gifford, James A. Farley. Jackie Gleason could not make it, but he sent a mass of fall flowers and a pal's salutation, which began: "Dear Clam Head...
...widow's death. Johnson, he reports, showed an inconsolable sorrow, and a return to his lifelong severe melancholy; yet, "I have often been inclined to think that if this fondness of Johnson for his wife was not dissembled, it was a lesson that he had learned by rote, and that, when he practiced it, he knew not where to stop till he became ridiculous." It is easy to see why this jarred Sam Johnson's admirers, but Hawkins was a man who valued truth highly and charity...
...supports four bowl games (Cotton, Bluebonnet, Sun, Prairie View), three professional franchises, 30 college teams-and many of the nation's football bookmakers. The eight teams in the Southwest Conference* have produced some 65 All-Americas, are the breeding grounds for such superb professionals as Yale Lary, Kyle Rote, John David Crow and Bobby Layne. Still, a national championship is only a distant memory in Texas. Perhaps the biggest reason is the fratricidal nature of the bruising Southwest Conference, in which each team must play all the others each season-a harrowing schedule from which it is nearly impossible...
...groomed Jean and his brother Gaston to be his international salesmen. There was to be no nonsense of a university education for his sons. And in the local Cognac high school, Jean showed little intellectual promise anyway: he had, and still has, a poor memory, and floundered in the rote system of French instruction. At 18, Jean was sent off to Canada to peddle brandy in the raw Canadian boom towns of 1906 such as Calgary, Moose Jaw and Medicine Hat. He was pleasantly surprised by the absence of class barriers and the ingrained suspicions that so characterized the European...