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Such an analysis depends upon two questionable assumptions. First, it assumes that the Harvard degree produces the additional income of the Harvard alumnus. According to this theory, Karim Aga Khan makes 1,000,000 times as much as his stable boy because he went to Harvard, and the young genius...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dollars for Culture | 12/17/1957 | See Source »

Time was when college football was devoted to the classic commandment of sport: play to win. From Slippery Rock State Teachers to the semipro squads that are the pride of the country's largest universities, players and coaches alike were devoted to a single statistic, the final score. Few...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Team That Quit | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

When the driving rains limited the effectiveness of the Crimson's passing attack, the hard-running Yardling backfield took up the slack in the offense. Moving well despite the slippery field the Yardling backs tallied twice in the second quarter. Fullback Steve Cohen plowed 30 yards for one score and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardlings Win 4th Straight, 20-7; Defeat Cheshire in Ankle-Deep Mud | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

Last season's amateurs were brilliant in the first quarter. Stanford's Quarterback John Brodie, already signed by the San Francisco Forty-Niners, made the most of a Giant fumble with the slippery ball, swiftly passed his collegians 55 yds. toward the pros' goal, sent Illinois'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Night School | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

The brother from out west was played by Hank Holmes, his wife by Fred Mueller. Hank was both convincing and delightful, while Fred provided a marvelous caricature of a loud, if not rip-roaring, midwestern wife. Pare Lorentz capably handled a none too sparkling part as Ivy's poor lover...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: On the Rocks | 3/21/1957 | See Source »

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