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...shifty tailback for U.S.C.. but when he reported to the pros, Gifford got a rude awakening. "They don't tap you," he says. "They jar the confidence right out of you, and you spend most of the first season picking up the pieces." While picking up, Frank decided that pro football is considerably more fun and infinitely more complicated than the college game...
...absolute virtue is not the only command written upon the sheepskin Harvardiana-brethren, ye must not hide your light under a bushel. Consider the needs of the simple and sociable savages in the West, the rude frontiersmen doomed to destruction in their shiny Jaguars, the winning young ladies in their sororities and sewing circles-all, all waiting for that saving seed, that saving seed which only we and our apostles can plant...
...Birch became fond of Bertie, he was sacked. Birch's successor, Frederick Gibbs, had everything that the creation of a problem child demands. He kept "story books of all kinds" out of Bertie's reach, reported regularly that the frustrated little boy was "excited," "disobedient," "very angry," "rude," "half silly." Bertie responded, complained Gibbs, by "throwing stones in my face...
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...Rude Awakening. Whip-smart Walter Reuther, the United Auto Workers' leader whose political prestige was placed on the November line by his effective convention support of a Stevenson-Kefauver ticket, launched into a 20-minute argument for an all-out Democratic endorsement. Labor, said Reuther, must protect its bargaining-table gains in the political arena. "We did not choose the battlefield," he cried. "Our enemies have gone there, and that is where labor must go to protect itself...