Word: theres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are at least a score of available experience coaches and successful professional players, including some former Harvard players, such as Charley Buell, Charley Crowley, Eddie Maham and "Chuck" Peabody who could make good and restore Harvard football prestige, but unfortunately Valpey is not one of them. His plays were...
Lewis' insuperable urge for power, which helped him break away from the AFL in 1935 and from his own CIO after 1940, is fully displayed here with considerable objectivity. Mr. Alinsky, though an intimate of Lewis, is keenly aware of his subject's personal weaknesses, and deals fairly with them...
The editors of this anthology have exercised the greatest care in selecting their material. There is not a story in the volume that is dull; the commentary is lively, apparently accurate, and invaluable in establishing the continuity which a simple collation of clippings would of necessity lack.
There are amusing touches. The first accounts of Lincoln's shooting, taken off the New York Tribune wire, are as confused and contradictory as any modern disaster reports. Gettysburg sounds like two different battle from the reports of Virginia and Ohio correspondents--just as the latest war sounded incredible to...
The "expose" is also well represented. The London Spy goes into a lunatic asylum in 1699, and a New York Evening Post reporter reveals shameful prises conditions in 1917; the New York Times does a job a Boss Tweed in 1871, the Washington Post attacks the Colombians in 1946. There...