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...which thankless jobs abound, perhaps the most thankless--and most precarious--of all is that of head football coach in an Ivy League college. Caught between the Ivy Towers of intellectualism and the plush clubrooms of old-gradism, the football coach must be something of a magician to endure for any length of time...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Low Pressure Magician | 11/1/1958 | See Source »

Someone should consider Henry Cabot Lodge for the next Republican President. He might be prevailed upon to consider changing one thankless job for another. Furthermore, he just might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 25, 1958 | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

...himself described the job as one "nobody in his right mind" would want. But in 1954 Lawyer Henry Richardson Labouisse of Wilton, Conn, became director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Beirut, and took on the thankless task of caring for more than 900,000 Arab refugees from Palestine. Labouisse gradually broke down Arab resistance to UNRWA, traveled all over Europe describing the plight of his refugees and gently dunning U.N. members for funds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Friendly Persuader | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

...ranging voice that floated purely though somewhat colorlessly in its upper register, darkened richly in its lower one. The haunting warning Einsam wachend in der Nacht in Act II had a texture soft as velvet, but with resonant carrying power. Her characterization in one of opera's most thankless roles was skillfully subdued, came as a welcome relief from the histrionics with which other Brangänes sometimes worry the Met's stage. All in all, it was a welcome and memorable first visit by the girl from across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Out of the Bar | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

...which thankless jobs abound, perhaps the most thankless--and most precarious-- of all is that of head football coach in an Ivy League college. Caught between the Ivy Towers of intellectualism and the plush clubrooms of old-gradism, the football coach must be something of a magician to endure for any length of time...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr.s, | Title: Low-Pressure Magician | 12/3/1957 | See Source »

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