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...just before 4 a.m. on June 5,1944, and the rain slashed at them "in horizontal streaks," Dwight Eisenhower recalled later. The commanders of Operation Overlord were gathering around the fireplace in the library of Southwick House, outside Portsmouth, to hear a Scottish group captain named J.M. Stagg predict the next day's weather. On the basis of Stagg's calculations, Eisenhower would have to decide whether to give the attack order to the nearly 3 million troops assembled in southern Britain for the greatest seaborne invasion in history, the assault on Hitler's Atlantic Wall...
...with just the right expression and gesture." The editors' choice: six-month-old Lisa Harap of Queens Village, N.Y., Munro's "wise" baby. Lisa becomes the youngest identifiable living person ever to appear on TIME's cover (the oldest: 96-year-old Football Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg...
...work and life could scarcely be thought of separately. He died last week at 69 from a heart attack, but really a mix of illnesses that he had been fighting for three years (heroically, said his doctor), all the while he was pursuing Pop Warner and Amos Alonzo Stagg right up to his 323rd victory in the Liberty Bowl...
...course, Bryant hardly chased them. He caught up to history's most successful coaches with a mumbled apology. "Warner and Stagg are like Babe Ruth or Huckleberry Finn," he said. "I don't compare to them." This is how Bryant talked, and prophetic lines muttered by him over the past year or two could be repeated last week without a chill. Coming from him they were not ghoulish: they were true. What would Bear do if he ever quit coaching football? "Probably croak in a week." Where would he go? "I imagine I'd go straight...
...games. "I don't think of it even now," he said before the 43-21 victory over Florida A. & M. that made 300. "That just was never part of it: counting the games." Still, his eyes shine proudly at the mention of Pop Warner, Amos Alonzo Stagg and Bear Bryant, the only other college football coaches who have done it. "I knew Warner as a formation in high school around Baton Rouge," he lightly laughs. " 'Warner Left,' 'Warner Right.' I had the privilege of meeting Mr. Stagg at a coaches' clinic in California...