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...victory); it was just that Bronko McGugan, a junior in geology, too small for the big time, and unfavored by football "scholarships," typified the unsung, inglorious, eternal scrub. In Oklahoma City last week, the Quarterback Club felt the least they could do was buy Fifth-Stringer McGugan a shiny new helmet-and collected $73.25, enough to buy him four...
...case hung on the story told by slick-haired Reporter Staktopoulos, 36-year-old stringer for Reuters news agency. A graduate of Communist training schools, he had been ordered to renounce the party publicly two years ago, and pose as a reformed Red. On the night of May 8, under party orders, he said, he took Polk to a waterfront restaurant in Salonika, to wait for a dory that would start the correspondent on his journey to see Guerrilla Chieftain Markos Vafiades...
...addition there are 85 cities in the U.S., 20 in Canada and 60 overseas where TIME requires independent coverage but not fulltime representation. In each, TIME has a local correspondent (called a "string correspondent" or "stringer") to watch for news stories of more than local interest, to cover special assignments for our editors, to answer their queries, and to keep them filled in on what people in their sections are doing, saying and thinking...
...WINE OF YOUTH (287 pp.)-Arthur Stringer-Bobbs-Merrill...
...Arthur Stringer's biography is the first major work on Brooke since the Memoir Sir Edward Marsh wrote to go with Brooke's collected poems in 1918. Canadian Poet Stringer had the use of a bundle of material on Brooke collected by the late Richard Halliburton (The Royal Road to Romance), who was lost at sea in 1939 before he could make it into a book. Though sometimes heavyhanded, Red Wine of Youth is neither too reticent nor too worshipful to present Brooke as a human being...