Word: sandlots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another headache for the Crimson line may be the Lions' "muddle huddle," which must be seen to be understood. The Yalies reportedly watched movies before last week's game of a New Haven sandlot pickup game and were ready to thwart the unusual Columbia formation. The Bulldog line chose not to jitterbug with the flankers and split ends, but rushed right in to stop the backfield...
...nine; the number of elementary and high schools had increased from 307 to 412; tireless Fund Raiser Spellman has chalked up $41,322,074 through his annual fund appeal for Catholic Charities. Born in Whitman, Mass., moonfaced, articulate Frank Spellman ran errands for his father's grocery, played sandlot baseball, boxed in a village barn, became an altar boy at the local church. After graduating from Fordham University ('11), he studied for the priesthood at Rome's North American College. He served in the Boston archdiocese before the Vatican summoned him in 1925. As first U.S.-born...
...Chalk should know. He has run up a $10 million-plus fortune by making every dollar turn over many times-through borrowing. Son of a Russian immigrant shopkeeper, Chalk grew up in The Bronx (his neighbors were George and Ira Gershwin, and he fielded sandlot grounders batted by Lou Gehrig), rode the subways to New York University Law School ('31). With loans and his skimpy earnings as a young attorney, he bought Bronx apartments at Depression prices, later cashed in on World War II's real estate boom. Typical Chalk deal: in 1942 he bought the 16-story...
...tryouts ("I only weighed 145 then," he explains). Unitas settled for the University of Louisville. The Pittsburgh Steelers gave him a brief tryout, sent him home. Disappointed, he got a job with a pile-driving crew, played football on the side (salary: $6 a game) for a Pittsburgh semipro sandlot team. Baltimore picked him up there in 1956 with a telephone call...
Scholar Kerr continued to teach and write learned articles during his term as chancellor, optimistically plans to do the same as president. One activity he has abandoned for the moment: sandlot athletics with his children (Clark, 15, Alexander, 12, Caroline, 6) and neighbor kids, halted when he broke a tibia recently in a soccer game. He is up at 6 a.m. on working days, commutes from one campus to another by plane, sometimes takes a grocery carton full of documents home at night...