Word: tatum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Marine Corps Reserve Colonel Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington, 46, World War II ace (28 Japanese planes), reformed tosspot and bestselling autobiographer (Baa Baa Black Sheep); and TV Actress Dolores ("Dee") Tatum, 33; he for the third time ("first time I've been married sober"), she for the second; in Denver...
...Maryland student paper was not sad to see him go: Tatum's tenure "was an era in which an inadequate stadium became ultra-adequate, and an inadequate library became more inadequate." Nor was the North Carolina student paper glad to see him come-"this parasitic monster of open professionalism...
...Glory Days. At Maryland, Jim Tatum became the most successful major college coach in the game. Witty and winning, he was a tireless recruiter, prowling the hills of Pennsylvania and West Virginia night after night for the agile, brawny kids he needed to make the split-T work. In nine years his teams won 73, lost only 15, tied 4, and went to five bowl games. In the glory days of 1953, while the stands chanted "We're number one!", Maryland was undefeated, was judged the national champion by wire-service polls, and Jim Tatum was coach...
Still, it was not all roses for Tatum, even at Maryland. The university was criticized for overemphasizing football; in one year the school handed out 93 scholarships, averaging $944 each, to Tatum's players. When Dr. Wilson Elkins, a Rhodes scholar and onetime University of Texas quarterback, was named president in 1954 and set out to raise Maryland's academic standing, Tatum got itchy feet. In 1956, taking a salary cut from $18,500 to $15,000, Jim Tatum went home to North Carolina. Said he with a rum-Wing chuckle: "I'm going back to North...
...blasts, worked so hard at his job that he landed in a hospital, gradually won a place at his old school. This season, with 24 returning lettermen, was to be the year for North Carolina. But fortnight ago, his huge 240-lb. body covered with a red rash, Jim Tatum was rushed to the university hospital. Doctors diagnosed an overwhelming attack of a "common type of virus" that had affected his vital organs. Last week, at 45, Coach Jim Tatum died...