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...special honors. That was to come later at Michigan, which he entered in 1939. As a freshman, he played halfback. In fact it wasn't until 1942 that he switched to end, playing 50 minutes or more of every game with the famous "Seven Oak Posts", who helped wallop Don Forte's Harvard team 35-7 at Ann Arbor. "I can remember Cleo O'Donnell and Wally Flynn in that game," Madar recalls. And they undoubtedly remember the fivefoot eleven, 170-pound Wolverine end who intercepted a Crimson pass and ran 45 yards for a touchdown...
...week, Geoffrey pays $10 in government taxes and $16 to the building society. He allows himself $5 for lunches-which means, he says, "either I give myself a good feed and nothing to drink, or sandwiches and a pint of wallop [beer]." Mary spends $12 a week for food (50% more than prewar), $4 for local taxes, light and heat. Their 23? meat ration lasts for only two meals, so Mary supplements it with items like mushrooms and canned salmon. This is costly but the Jacksons consider it an investment in good health...
...exposures of radicalism and New Dcalism were hardly the sort of things Dickstein had had in mind. And when Dies took a merely routine wallop at the German-American Bund, and produced an American Federation of Labor man who testified that Communists were ensconced in both the CIO and the federal government, Dickstein gave vent to some heart-felt criticism...
Last week, ex-Interior Secretary Harold Ickes followed this pattern as he began describing "My Twelve Years with F.D.R." in the Saturday Evening Post. He took a wallop at Harry Hopkins' WPA: "[Harry] was not priming the pump; he was just turning on the fireplug." He indignantly described an undercover effort by Henry Wallace to get him out of the Cabinet. Wrote he of Henry in a 1938 diary entry: "Henry Wallace is a selfish and not too forthright individual who is so consumed with his political ambition that there isn't anything that...
...call from Jones in Louisville asking him to ride Lawrin, a 9-to-1 shot in the Kentucky Derby. "Not me," says Eddie. "I want no part of him." But Jones talked him into it, and Eddie got the biggest wallop of his life ("You only win your first Derby once"). The next time it was Whirlaway, and the Triple Crown. This February, the chances of Arcaro riding Citation for Ben Jones were about 100 to 1 against. Eddie, up on Assault, had crashed into Ben's pride & joy, Armed, in the Widener Handicap...