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Paterno had warned, "John's not a beauty to watch," but the coach understated it. How Shaffer could have started 54 straight victories became the question of the moment, but an answer was suggested following the game by the brave way he stood up to his first loss since seventh grade. Of three interceptions, one at the goal line, Shaffer said straightforwardly, "The pattern was good, the protection was good, the throw was short. They were all bad throws. They killed us. It's just too bad that the performance of one person can have so much to do with...
...asked about his affection for the artist and his vision of the world. "I was very proud when he asked to do my portrait and was walking on air when I was given the finished portrait. He did it in a suite in the Madison Hotel in Washington. He stood me in the light he wanted from a window, then engaged me in conversation and now and then asked me to turn my head. This is the only Rockwell I have...
...bought and sold Pennzoil shares, but the majority of the purchases involved blocks of under 5,000 shares, less than the amount normally swapped by pension funds and other institutions. Most of the trading was thus probably not done by big investors. Shareholders who sold before early Wednesday afternoon stood to make huge profits, but those who held on too long watched their earnings evaporate. Said Bruce Lazier, an analyst at Prescott Ball & Turben: "Somebody did a giant con job on a lot of investors...
...matured. His major statement of theology appeared in The Nature and Destiny of Man (two volumes, 1941 and 1943). Fox shows how profoundly Reinhold's evolution was influenced by the counsel of his younger brother H. Richard, a brilliant Yale theology professor who was painfully aware that he always stood in Reinhold's shadow...
...coldest day in Rex Scouten's life may also have been his best. He came to the capital as a Secret Service agent out of Detroit to help in Harry Truman's 1949 Inauguration. He shivered as he stood by the Inaugural stand. Yet the great celebration awed the Michigan farm boy, who recalled last week, "I never thought I would ever get to Washington." He has been there, at the very center, ever since...