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...sophomores, George Kovatch and Pete Milano have been in the tackle slots, while a couple of senior lettermen, Brad Glass and Marty Mayer, both of them wrestler, are at the guards. Glass won mention on several All-America squads for his defensive performance last season...
Herman Hickman has spent most of his life alternately telling funny stories and pummeling his fellow men. As burly (5 ft. 11 in., 230 Ibs.) All-America guard at Tennessee ('32), he tore opposing lines to shreds; as a professional wrestler, he grunted & groaned through 300 contests; as a line coach at West Point (1943-48), he had to stop mixing in the scrimmage with his boys because he put too many of them in the hospital. But last week on the Herman Hickman Show (Fri. 7 p.m., NBC), televiewers saw only his friendly side...
...slipped into a rear-row seat in the hearing room. Recognized by an alert committee aide as Constantin Radzie, who was born in Russia and became a U.S. citizen in 1937, the spectator was served with a quick subpoena and taken to the witness stand. Scowling like a wrestler, Radzie denied that he had been sent by the party to intimidate Professor Albaum. In the end, he invoked the Fifth Amendment as smoothly as a professor. He refused to say whether he was a party hatchetman or whether he was a member of Soviet military intelligence...
Camille Bombois had been a wrestler in sideshows. When he quit the muscle business to become a printer's helper, he took up painting as a hobby. Years later his bright, primitive paintings began to attract some mild attention in the Paris art world (TIME, Oct. 27, 1947). Most of his primitive-style pictures were laboriously modeled from photographs. But he peddled enough of them on street corners to give up his printing job and paint fulltime...
Frank belatedly recalls a note of warning which he neglected to pass on to his successors. It seems that Frank wrote a story about Basilio, a 250-lb. ex-wrestler reputed to have the worst temper in all Brazil. Basilio didn't like the story, Frank heard later. From the security of TIME'S Bonn bureau, Frank cabled me recently: "My advice to Cran Jones: if a large, cauliflowered party shows up in my bureau, don't tell him your name isn't White. Neither he nor probably anybody else in Brazil would believe...