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Army's veteran soccer coach resigned at the end of last season, but their new mentor, the assistant coach in 1946, is a follower of the traditional West Point principles of emphasizing condition and contact while minimizing tricky maneuvers. Whereas the Cadets generally play a slam-bang, long-passing game, the Crimson emphasizes ball control and short passes between the halfbacks and forwards...
...entire working life has been spent on the Journal; he became the assistant editor in 1912, a year after he graduated from Rush Medical College. Fishbein has one absorbing interest-medical research -and two absorbing hatreds-quacks and socialized medicine. His special fame has come from his slam-bang crusading in all three fields...
...Running in a crowded field (six candidates in all) plump, 42-year-old Maurice Hartt ran thousands of votes ahead of both Independent Paul Masse and Communist Michael Buhay. The fact that the Liberal Party's best bilingual orators journeyed over from Ottawa for the windup of a slam-bang campaign, helped. But Winner Hartt almost surely owed his victory most of all to the electorate's change of mind about Communism. The Hartt victory also indicated approval of the Federal Government's handling of the Russian spy-ring investigations...
...Ernie Pyle's Here Is Your War-give more colorful pictures of life on the Operation Torch convoys, and still others (since this is a naval history only) deal more fully with the beach fighting and the land battles. But no other book shows as clearly what a slam-bang gamble the invasion was, and how easily-and tragically-it might have gone to smash...
Hammond did not start from scratch. His father, John Hays Hammond Sr., was a fabulous gold-mining engineer. With slam-bang empire-builder Cecil Rhodes, he was involved in the Jameson Raid (which helped to provoke the Boer War) and built up the world's greatest gold-producing region around Johannesburg, South Africa. These activities made him rich...