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George Bernard Shaw agreed to play a tailor-made role: guest expert on a transatlantic Information Please program...
...Rissman Trophy, put up by a Chicago tailor and sewed up by
Notre Dame in 1930; the Knute Rockne Trophy, sponsored by Notre Dame's Four
Horsemen and awarded to Minnesota last fall.
* Held by Minnesota Halfback Bud Higgins.
Hearty, 46-year-old George Halas grew up with his team. Son of a Chicago tailor, he worked his way through the University of Illinois, was good enough at football to be named on one of Walter Camp's All-Americas, good enough at baseball to get a job after graduation with the New York Yankees. When Babe Ruth moved into the right-field spot Halas had hoped for, Halas moved out, to become athletic director for Staley Starch Products Co. at Decatur...
...Gentleman Tailor, when asked why he was strolling so far from the madding crowd of bewildered registrants, calmly explained that he was just waiting till he was sure they were definitely in the institution before he pulled that line about giving them unlimited credit till June of their Senior year. "You may be an early bird," he beamed "but I prefer to be a smart worm...
After becoming a successful portrait painter, Woolf rebelled at last because a sitter's tailor complained of the way Woolf painted his client's suit. Turning to lithography, he was hired by the New York Times to do illustrations for its book and feature sections. The idea of doing interviews with his sketches came from an encounter with George Bernard Shaw. Turned down when he called personally to do a sketch of Shaw, Woolf wrote him a Shavian letter, saying that "immortality will not be yours until I have drawn you." Replied Shaw: "I have now considerable experience...