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...McManama, center on the Local Line, was given the Weiland Award for "aggressive and spirited play and selfless contribution to total team effort." An all-Ivy and all-East selection, he tied with linemate Dave Hynes for the scoring lead with 54 points this winter...
...crocked: "Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath." But a feeling of unease, of inevitable doom, sank into his gut, and he returned to Brewer. Finally disappointed by a mistress too scared to let Rabbit get through to her, and slightly stirred by the selfless (if misguided) urgings of an Episcopalian minister, he returned to his wife Janice as well...
...intimate side of their marriage was over. As time passed, private relations in general deteriorated even further. Polio was for Franklin the permanent blow that Lucy Mercer was for Eleanor. He spent increasing amounts of time seeking cures in the South, especially Warm Springs, where Missy LeHand was his selfless secretary and hostess...
Hoffa, however, did not base his decision on any such selfless consideration as the welfare of his union. The Washington Post alleged that the Teamsters offered him $100,000 a year for the rest of his life if he would give up the presidency. Payments will begin when he is released from jail. As part of the deal, his ailing wife Josephine will keep her $40,000-a-year job directing political activities among Teamster women; young Jimmy reportedly will be named general counsel of the union at $50,000 a year. A Teamster official denied...
...Galeski hasn't always been a selfless matman. In his freshman year he didn't even go out for wrestling, because he "had visions of going to the 1972 Olympics as a cox on the great Harvard crew team...