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...Semper Fidelis. Brock's ball has two main purposes: 1) to teach future physical education instructors how to teach dancing, and 2) to take the clubs out of football players' feet. The course has contributed so much to Omaha's football success (24 victories, four losses and one tie in three years) that Head Coach Lloyd ("Wild Hoss") Cardwell encourages his squad to join...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Shall We Dance? | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...women's course in modern dance. He was accepted, and by mid-semester was elected to Orchesis, the honorary dancing society. Leeper did his own choreography for the Orchesis show, in which he will wear a fluffy tutu (ballet costume) neatly ornamented by a tattooed Marine motto, Semper Fidelis, on his ham-sized left arm. So far, Leeper has managed to keep his head. Says he: "I'd still rather throw a block in football than throw one of the girls in the dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Shall We Dance? | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...Semper Fi (Contd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 26, 1956 | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...Semper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 19, 1956 | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

...upper decks, the wives waved, blew kisses, wept. As the ship got ready to sail, the passengers suddenly unfurled paper signs: "Pate's Paupers," "Love, Cherish and Be Transferred," "Un-American," "Shanghaied." The most cutting of all was a sign emblazoned with the abbreviation of the Marine slogan, "Semper Fi"; next to it was a picture of what Americans in ordure-treasuring Asia called a "honey bucket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Semper Fi | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

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