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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twelve years since Rockne's death, tall, gaunt-faced Clark Daniel Shaughnessy has indeed proved himself a top-flight coach. Last week he uncovered a second talent: military tactics. In Football in War & Peace (Jacobs Press; $1) he convincingly underscores the remarkable similarity of football strategy to tactics in warfare...
Highlight of the smoker was the professional talent, supplied through the contacts of Ed Anderson and Brothers Sainsbury and Jewett...
...Information Please, for which he reportedly gets $1,500 a week. He lectured widely, for fat fees. He edited I Believe (1939) and Reading I've Liked (1941). He bought stock in a wine company. With his two brothers, Edwin and William, he operates a flourishing radio talent agency, Fadiman Associates, Ltd. He is on the editorial committee of The Readers Club, a book-of-the-monthly sort of organization that deals in $1.25 classics. Estimates of his income go as high as $100,000 a year, beside which his New Yorker salary was peanuts...
...fall would be worth watching. Many of the name coaches (Harvard's Dick Harlow, Minnesota's Bernie Bierman, Fordham's Sleepy Jim Crowley, Iowa's Hunk Anderson) had gone into the services. The old hands still on the job were short of time if not talent, would have a hard time putting together the kind of precision machine that football fans had been accustomed to watching. Especially to new coaches, who saw a chance to make a quick reputation, the possibilities of a wide-open game, full of long-gain gambles, looked inviting. It might...
These discussions, however, are not confined to interviews. Some of them approach the classical, and show great talent and artistry. In fact, it is said that some of the boys have yet to repeat themselves...