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...bound for Munich. It was 13 minutes late-not too bad for the holiday season and a Saturday night. But up in the electric locomotive, Engineer Oskar Sauerbrey gave it a lot of thought. He throttled her up. "I think we are going too fast," yelled Fireman Karl Rupp. Engineer Oskar simply opened the throttle some more-to 60 m.p.h. (the permitted limit), to 70, 80, 84. Back in the diner, cups and saucers crashed from cupboards, and in the compartments, people locked arms to keep from smashing against the walls. Women fainted in the aisles. A doctor was knocked...
When it comes to beating the bushes for new talent, Bear Bryant drives himself as hard as he ever drives his players. He had hardly hit Texas early last year, a refugee from the high-pressure Kentucky basketball barony of Adolph Rupp, when he put on a recruiting drive that started other Southwest Conference coaches screaming: "Foul!" Conference officials promptly blew the whistle on Bear's overenthusiastic salesmanship and set the Aggies back with a stiff penalty: two years' probation and orders not to appear in any bowl games...
Perfectionist Rupp thought his boys did "right well in their debut," then had a sudden coachly afterthought: "We didn't play nearly as well as we are capable." How good is Rupp's team? In preseason polls, U.S. basketball coaches ranked Kentucky No. 2, after Indiana, last season's N.C.A.A. champion. Main reasons for the high ranking: 1) Coach Rupp himself, 2) Spring-legged Cliff Hagan of Owensboro, Ky., one of the shortest major college (6 ft. 4 in.) centers and one of the game's most prolific scorers (21.6 points average), and 3) Co-Captain...
...senior on the squad, who made a big impression in Kentucky's intrasquad games during last year's excommunication period. (More than 35,000 loyal Kentuckians poured in to watch the four exhibitions.) The three seniors, now in their fifth year on campus, are the backbone of Rupp's new team...
Kansas-born Adolph Rupp has become a thoroughly transplanted Kentuckian, now owns four 200-acre farms where he raises Herefords and tobacco. Recently, after onetime Governor (and ex-Baseball Commissioner) Happy Chandler announced he would run for governor again in 1955, Rupp was mentioned as a possible running mate, for the office of lieutenant governor. Rupp will neither confirm nor deny. "There have been efforts to bring me into the political picture," he acknowledges. But of one thing Rupp is certain: "I'll not retire until I win another N.C.A.A. championship." Vengeful Kentuckians, still smarting (along with Rupp) from...