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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Notre Dame's awesome football team went to Baltimore last week unescorted by the master, Frank Leahy. Without his restraining hand, there was no telling what havoc they would wreak on Navy. But Leahy, still wan from an attack of flu, showed up 43 minutes before the kickoff to take charge of keeping down the score...
...Orleans, it took people a while to get over the shock of Tulane's 46-7 drubbing by the Irish. Then everybody seemed to get mad at once. Coach Henry Frnka told friends he would cancel the scheduled 1950 game if he could. Last week Tulane announced that because of schedule difficulties it was impossible to continue the series with Notre Dame...
...contention, is a far more important race than its purse value suggests. For 13 years it has played a leading role in the annual horse-of-the-year award, and it has sometimes resuited in a race of the year (such as War Admiral v. Seabiscuit in 1938).* Last week's renewal of the sporting Special-by invitation as usual, for $15,000 winner-take-all-brought together the two speed demons of 1949's two leading stables: Calumet's four-year-old Coaltown and Greentree's three-year-old Capot...
...Sensato is a pensive Argentine comic-strip character who specializes in simple solutions for everyday problems. Last week, while Buenos Aires was agog at the size of the visiting Phillips Oilers basketball team (Center Bob Kurland is 7-ft. tall), Don Sensato had this to say: "It occurs to me that the only way to win from .. . the tall ones ... is to play...
Spade-bearded Ivan Mestrovic is a man who puts strong feelings into his sculpture (TIME, Aug. 30, 1948), and has plenty left over when he has laid aside his mallet. Last week Mestrovic received an urgent invitation to return to Yugoslavia, where he was born and made his fame. The invitation came through Fellow Sculptor Jo Davidson, who had recently completed a bust of Marshal Tito, and it was from the Dictator himself. "Tell Mestrovic," Tito had said, "not to be a fool. Tell him to come back." The expatriate sculptor's blunt reply: "Too many of my friends...