Word: staley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chalk-talk last night (see picture), Kanter told his squad that it will use the T-formation, with variations. Saturday. He also revealed that he had signed Paul Staley 1L, Bill Welch 2L, and Bob Crowdy 2B as assistant coaches. The three are the former mentors of Leverett, Eliot, and Adams. The squad list follows...
...course, this is the idle speculation of a disappointed Giant fan. The 11-game losing streak cannot be erased, and Gerry Staley will go on beating New York forever...
...Louis (Staley) 3, Chicago...
Almost the first student Staley had was a young ward worker named James Michael Curley, later famed as mayor, congressman, governor and convicted con-man.* "He had the harsh Boston voice," recalls Delbert Staley, "and the vocabulary of a fishmonger. But I straightened out his grammar, gave him a vocabulary, and trained his voice." Curley, says Staley proudly, is "the greatest American orator since Daniel Webster...
...become an orator, a student must plow through dozens of speeches, from Rienzi to Wendell Phillips' Toussaint L'Ouverture. "Learning these speeches puts forms into your head," says Staley. "Instead of saying, 'I am about to tell you the story of a Negro, Toussaint L'Ouverture,' one can paraphrase, 'I am about to tell you the story of a man, James Michael Curley, gleaned from the reluctant testimony of his enemies, the knaves who despised him because he defeated them." As the new semester began last week, Founder Staley gave the new class...