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...League administrators are happy. With uniform admission standards, they turn up with teams of roughly equal strength that beat each other with unpredictable irregularity, making up in excitement what they may lack in consistent skill. They even produce a few topflight football players. The likes of Harvard's Tackle Bob ("Shag") Shaunessy, Brown...
...others, it has uncovered no single outstanding player in the tradition of Minnesota's Bronko Nagurski (1929), Michigan's Tom Harmon (1940), Ohio State's Hopalong Cassady (1955). Instead, All-America selectors-and the pro teams-will have to choose among a large group of topflight, if not superhuman players...
...Iowa's pass-happy Randy Duncan (91 completions in 151 tries); and Notre Dame Newcomer George Izo, who was promoted to the first string only at midseason, has since completed 47 out of 77 passes for seven touchdowns. But 1958 may be best remembered as the year that topflight halfbacks sprang up all over the U.S. On late-season form, some who have proved themselves among the best...
...Topflight Staff. No sooner had American signed its jet contracts than it began planning for the long and involved transition from props. Though Smith personally keeps tabs on every major problem, he is surrounded by topflight staffers: Among them...
...been "authenticated" by scholars and repeatedly exhibited as genuine. For years the original was tucked out of sight at Dumbarton Oaks, Robert Woods Bliss's mansion in Washington, D.C. But after it was willed to Harvard in 1940, it was spotted by Harvard's Jakob Rosenberg, topflight Rembrandt scholar. "A comparison of the two heads shows at once how much of the plastic quality is lost [in the copy] by a manipulation of the brush that imitates Rembrandt's strokes but loses control of their modeling function," wrote Rosenberg. "The transitional tones, so essential for bringing...