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...commonplace and, as expected, a Midwest coach is tearing toward the goal line with the Coach of the Year under his arm. But he is not Minnesota's George Hauser, Michigan's Fritz Crisler, nor Notre Dame's Frank Leahy. He is a pint-sized upstart: Ohio State's Paul Brown...
Last week Bierman's old pupils at Minnesota, carrying on under Dr. George Hauser, his longtime line coach, knew how to bottle up an upstart like Schatzer. But even without Schatzer, Bierman's Seahawks proved to be tough birds. Though Minnesota made 13 first downs to their nine and gained 278 yards to their 107, the final score was: Seahawks, 7; Minnesota...
...Stuff. Trouble in Akron is nothing new. In 1902 the A.F. of L. started organizing, finally bashed its head against a united front of the manufacturers. Then came a long series of organizing drives, unrest, strikes, riots. In 1936 labor won its first big victory when the upstart United Rubber Workers (C.I.O.) forced giant Goodyear Tire & Rubber to rehire 70 discharged workers. The U.R.W. signed members in wholesale lots, now has practically all of Akron's 60,000 rubber workers. Many of them are husky, fearless men from the hills of Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia with a background...
Disease. From a family standpoint, Don Francisco Franco had plenty of reason to smack down his upstart inlaw. Serrano had dutifully fathered the six children of Señora Zita, handsome sister of Franco's wife. But a few months ago, Spaniards reported with bitter humor, Serrano had presented his wife with a social disease. His name was linked in Madrid café jingles to at least three women: the wife of a South American diplomat, the sister of a Spanish writer and a comely actress...
Headquarters, Sedan. Marshal von Rundstedt is seldom on the coast by night. Slim, immaculate, the apotheosis of the old Junker class that has furnished the upstart Hitler with his military brains, Gerd von Rundstedt stays by night close to his headquarters at Sedan...