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...Notre Dame's saddest football season in history (2 won, 8 lost) had many an Irish alumnus-including Brennan's predecessor and mentor Frank Leahy-screaming for the scalp of young (28) Coach Terry Brennan. But Notre Dame's president, the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., silenced the pack by giving Brennan a timely vote of confidence: "Coach Brennan was engaged in 1954 on a verbal agreement for three years . . . we are now re-engaging him for next year...
...strip wife wielding a rolling pin, and set another American record: 145 ft. 4½ in. Only other double Olympics qualifier: Tennessee A. & I. State University Club's tiny (108 Ibs.) Mae Faggs, 24, who finished first in the 200-meter dash, second in the 100-meter dash. Saddest woman in Washington was Stella Walsh, 45, who competed for Poland in the 1932 and '36 Olympics, once held almost every record in the book, and was eligible to try for the U.S. team, thanks to her week-old marriage to a U.S. citizen. Stella finished third...
...work: "One of the saddest things is that the only thing a man can do eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat for eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours-all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy...
...also a high-minded, rather literary world (Adlai's maternal grandfather was publisher of the Bloomington Pantograph). Young Adlai played charades-once he enacted "a sunbeam on a rug"-and listened to his father's serial stories about two characters called Whangdoodle and Whiffenpoof. The saddest moment of Stevenson's childhood-the tragic death of a young girl when a gun Adlai was carrying went off accidentally-is told by Author Ives with great kindness and candor. For the rest, tragedy is absent...
...Hemingway-type hero is no Jake, no Lieut. Henry, but the saddest of fictional sad sacks, called, of all things, Tyree Shelby. Soon Hemingway-type philosophy is being fed to him. Says Shelby's drunken C.O.: "You can't escape the sonsofbitches and the only choice you got is between sonsofbitches." Does the Hemingway manner work? Paraphrasing the remark Churchill is supposed to have made to his son Randolph ("Haven't you learned yet that I put more into my speeches than brandy?"), Papa Hemingway might well remind young (30) Novelist Hoffman that more goes into...