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...back in a capacity tagged "adjuster." In the deep backfield, he works with returning starter Steve Golden, a junior. Several other backs are possible starters on defense; they include junior Barry Malinowski, seniors Tobin Harvey and Tim Bilodeau, and juniors Mike Murr (switched from offense this week) and Wes Shofner...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Restic, Crimson Set for 1971 Debut | 9/22/1971 | See Source »

GOOD professional athletes often acquire mystical followers. People accustomed to the skills of the superstars come to believe that the good guys can only win. I once so worshipped the New York Giants, Y. A. Tittle and Del Shofner handled the football so beautifully that they could not fail. On Sundays I could balance Tittle's lyrical bombs with the brutal contact of Roosevelt Greer and Sam Huff and happily watch the Giants mutilate they lost and their following dwindled...

Author: By Christopher Cabot, | Title: The Fight The Beauty and the Beast | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

...offensive interference penalty pushed the Elis back and on fourth down, dropped the snap from center. After a mad scramble, the Crimson's Wes Shofner recovered at the Yale...

Author: By Robert Decherd, James Hines, and Evan W. Thomas, S | Title: Harvard Triumphs Over Bulldogs, 14-12, Will Share Second Place in Ivy League | 11/21/1970 | See Source »

...known to the trade as pulpit glasses and half-eyes -is lending a new mien to the far-sighted across the U.S. People of all ages and walks of life are popping up in demi-cheaters. "We used to sell about two pairs a month," says Milwaukee Optician James Shofner. "These days, we sell at least a pair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: The Franklin Look | 9/4/1964 | See Source »

...Shofner thinks that TV is responsible. "The half-spec enables people who only need glasses for reading to go through the evening paper and watch TV at the same time without taking their glasses off," he explains. Others extol the half eye's compactness in the pocket, its lightness on the nose, the way it allows women to apply eye makeup and see what they're doing. Deep down, though, half-spec wearers know that the main reason they wear them is the expression -quizzical, benign, worldly-wise-that they impart to even the most pudding-faced peerer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: The Franklin Look | 9/4/1964 | See Source »

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