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Goofy? Hep. One day in 1933 Silverman called Abel Green up to the dais, told him: "Abel, you sit here." That made Green editor. Silverman died that year, left the business to son Sid, now an ailing absentee...
...practitioner, with just about every known variety of formation in his bag-except the T. He added that after watching the Chicago Bears pulverize the Washington Redskins, 73-0. The modernized, tricked-up version of the old-hat T was just beginning to catch on; the Bears, with Quarterback Sid Luckman handling the ball and directing his team's fabulous repertory of 300 plays, were powerful persuaders...
...year 1914 way down yonder in New Orleans Sid Bechet, still in short pants, broke into music, playing clarinet in the Eagle Brass Band which paraded for festivals and funerals. In recent years Bechet has made many great jazz records with special studio bands and only last month he appeared as features star on Esquire's coast-to-coast jazz broadcast over the Blue Network. Bunk Johnson on cornet also played in the old Eagle Band, and by 1914 hen Bechet joined him he was already an old timer, having performed with King Bolden's Band...
...football professors had been dead wrong, and humanly slow to admit it. Four years ago, coaches labeled the T formation a precarious stratagem suitable only for such star performers as Quarterback Sid Luckman of the Chicago Bears and Fullback Norm Standlee of Stanford. Without such power and polish, said the coaches, the T formation wouldn't work...
Injuries which have jinxed Sid Correll and Jim Foley for most of the season, will definitely keep both of these regulars out of tomorrow's race. States coach Mikkola, "the team will have to turn in their best effort of the year to win this...