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Sampson, who is regarded as one of the smartest men connected with football, will be the chief strategist of the staff and will probably do a major portion of the scouting. Cleary's appointment as line coach is likewise not a surprise since he was next in line for the position. The decision of R. J. Dunne not to return next year left the job open for him. Ticknor's appointment as assistant line coach and special mentor for the centers is received with considerable elation since it is felt that the presence of the Crimson's All-American center...
When Mr. McFarland consented at long last to become General Manager, where was Mr. Bennett? The Canadian Prime Minister whose welcome in London had been without enthusiasm was being royally feted in Paris. This was due to the wangling prowess of one of Canada's smartest sons, one of the most popular foreigners in Paris, Mr. Philippe Roy, Canadian Minister to France...
With a candor possible only to one whose identity is hidden under a pseudonym. "Audacious" preludes his list of the socially elect with a few paragraphs of explanatory comment. "This list is the A-1 list of boys who are invited to all the smartest debutante affairs," he (or she) says. "This group is invited to everything. When more than 250 men are needed as at balls, etc., additional men are invited, but these men receive the cream of all the invitations." The writer goes on to say that the list is made up each spring from the graduates...
Some putters from Jacksonville, Fla. were smartest. They came two weeks before the tournament started and putted round and round the Fairyland course, where every hole is named for a fairy story with little statues of the characters -gnomes, animals, little people-as hazards, direction posts, decoration. By long practice the people from Jacksonville learned to play Cinderella, to kill Red Riding Hood, to fool Little Miss Muffet. Of course, Chattanooga putters had practiced on the course a lot too, but they were rattled by competition with the outland contestants. Impulsive Chinese Grace Moy of Brooklyn arrived...
...story on which so much cyclonic satire is hung concerns a smalltime vaudeville team of which the smartest member is Jean Dixon (the acidic wife in June Moon). The least gifted member is Hugh O'Connell, a ludicrous gentleman who had the part of a half-drunk reporter in The Racket, a completely drunk reporter in Gentlemen of the Press. The first indication of Mr. O'Connell's competence appears when Miss Dixon asks him what he is reading. "Variety" he replies. "Why don't you read something written in English...