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...line includes Jerry Hillebrand, Colorado, and Bill Miler, Miami of Florida at ends; Bill Neighbors, Alabama, and Merlin Olsen, Utah State at tackle; Roy Winston, Louisiana State, and Dave Behrman, Michigan State at guard, and Alex Kroll, Rutgers, at center...
...lower lip had the same courageous thrust as in the wartime posters, but the sturdy, bulldog head was sunk deep into slumped shoulders, and the pale blue eyes were watery and weary when Sir Winston Churchill tottered slowly into the House of Commons as Big Ben struck 3 on his 87th birthday. "Hear, hear, hear," rolled out the traditional Commons welcome, until it beat like a native drum. Then came a few most unparliamentary hurrahs (with nary a reprimand from the bewigged Speaker), and the "right honorable member for Woodford" slumped into his lifetime front-bench seat. A government spokesman...
Guards: Roy Winston, 21, Louisiana State; 6 ft. 1 in., 224 Ibs. Treva Bolin, 21, Mississippi; 6 ft. 3 in., 222 Ibs. Passed over by the pro scouts with hardly a glance were such highly touted college guards as Colorado's Joe Romig and Iowa's Sherwyn Thorson. Reason: they are too small. "We can't look at the little guys," explains one scout. "We have to start around 6 ft. 2 in. and 225 Ibs. Anybody smaller simply can't play this game...
...spirit has not been allowed to rest in peace. Six years ago, Novelist Richard Aldington performed a literary autopsy on Lawrence's remains, charged that Lawrence was a downright fraud, possibly a homosexual, certainly a poseur whose role in the Arab revolt had been negligible. Old friends from Winston Churchill down rallied to Lawrence's defense, but the damage had been done. Lawrence's own confessions in Pillars made it clear that he had known from the beginning that the Great Powers intended to carve up the Middle East, that he was tortured by "the rankling fraudulence...
...merely a manner of preserving precious stones. To combat the notion that jewelry makers are not artists but artisans, London's 800-year-old Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths this month is showing the largest recent collection of fine jewelry. For every piece from Boucheron and Cartier, Harry Winston and Tiffany, there is a Calder, a Jean Arp, a Giacometti or a Picasso...