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...touchdown, Skypeck sent John Webster, usually a decoy halfback, deep into Crimson territory, and, after faking a handoff, completed a 26-yard pass play to Webster. On the next play, Skypeck, on a beautifully faked keep play, rushed over from the five-yard line. For all intents and purposes, however, the game ended when Taylor completed his pass to Juvonen. With this play, Cornell hit upon the varsity's main weakness and used it later in the game to rally their winning touchdown...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Cornell Staggers Crimson, 21-14 | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...boasts two top ends in Norm Juvonen and John Sadusky plus quarterback Tom Skypeck, one of the top men in the League, and John Webster, a halfback who was used largely as a pass catcher last season by coach Lefty James. Last year, Webster was the decisive factor in Cornell's 20-6 win over the Crimson as he caught three crucial passes good for 60 yards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Varsity Begins Ivy League Campaign Against Strong, Deep Cornell Team at Ithaca | 10/4/1958 | See Source »

Scramble of the Experts. The U.S. took up contract bridge with wild and alarming enthusiasm. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, newspapers reported bridge divorces, bridge assault-and-battery cases, even bridge deaths. Cartoonist H. T. Webster recorded bridge players' foibles in a long and memorable series. A North Carolina addict swore to shoot the next man who dealt him a bad hand, dealt himself a bust-and promptly shot himself to death. In Kansas City, Mo. in 1929, Housewife Myrtle Bennett committed one of the decade's most headlined homicides by shooting her husband after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: King of the Aces | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...across the center-fold of his 16-page publication, is graphically in the form of a giant phallic symbol, rising, one gathers, from the base of mediocrity and human rubbish. Mr. Robinson displays an amazing knowledge of six, seven, and eight-letter words, including poniard (spelled poignard, with which Webster is unfamiliar, on the preceding page by Harry Kemp, described as "a former friend of Eugene O'Neill") and cautery, the household word of course for what happens when you pick up a hot frying...

Author: By Gavin Scott, | Title: Identity | 9/24/1958 | See Source »

...fast-moving and imaginative productions of Margaret Webster proved a stimulus and an eye-opener. And now our Stratford has a handsome, air-conditioned theatre which contains Rouben Ter-Arutunian's magnificent basic stage and a surrounding physical plant that can accommodate the demands of all Shakespeare's plays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stratford, Connecticut; the Future of American Shakespearean Productions | 9/24/1958 | See Source »

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