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...young Scotsman who was earning $25 a week as a financial reporter made an unusual investment. From his savings, he spent $10 a day to live at Manhattan's old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. There he could rub elbows with the rich who gathered nightly in "Peacock Alley" to swap gossip. Before long, Bertie Charles Forbes was on speaking terms with many a tycoon. He became the rich man's Poor Richard and Boswell. As a Hearst columnist and later as publisher of his own Forbes-Magazine of Business, "B.C." found a hundred ways of repeating the obvious ("Dawn...
...effect, Coach Lynn ("Pappy") Waldorf was playing under the shadow of his own goalpost. He knew, when he signed to coach at the University of California, what had befallen his predecessors: eleven out of 18 had been fired (by the school's potent Associated Students Executive Committee) after only one season. And the Cal team Waldorf inherited was virtually the same team that lost seven games last year...
Rotund, easygoing Pappy Waldorf had one thing in his favor: the team was anxious to prove that it was not the players who were responsible for last year's disasters. Several players ran all summer to get their legs in shape; four of them, whose eyes were bad, got fitted with contact lenses. Last week California's Golden Bears scored their fifth straight victory of the season, over Washington State...
...Madison, California's new Coach Pappy Waldorf returned to his old Midwest haunts with a surprisingly powerful pack of Golden Bears, who pawed Wisconsin to pieces, 48 to 7. In other top-heavy triumphs, Penn State handed de-emphasized Fordham its worst shellacking (75 to 0) since it started playing the game in 1883, and Harvard, playing Virginia, took its worst beating (47 to 0) under Dick Harlow's twelve-year tenure...
...Francisco, before 80,000, California, a team that was a sorry sight last year, scored a 14-7 upset over Navy, which is rated one of the powers in the East. California has a brand-new coach, Lynn ("Pappy") Waldorf, late of Northwestern, and two slippery sophomore backs-Jack Jensen and Bob Celeri...