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...punt formation, and is one of the best close-up pass-defenders in the business. At the other tackle is 195-lb. Al Nemetz, the only man on the all-conquering 1944 squad, who (his coach said) never made a mistake all season. Captain, guard and off-season wrestler is 190-lb. Jack Green. The ends are manned by 6 ft. 1 in. Hank Foldberg, a music nut, and 6 ft. 1 in. Dick Pitzer, who likes to make as well as eat apple...
...cling to those hillsides, he paused before a picture of the Virgin. He put his last coin in the offering box, there & then resolved to enter the Greek Orthodox priesthood. An uncle, a well-to-do priest, shepherded him through the schools of Karditsa, where he excelled as a wrestler and javelin thrower...
...room public library. He also studied up on the lives of U.S. Presidents. "My favorites were George Washington (though he seemed too good to be true), Andrew Jackson (for his refusal to clean the British officer's boots), Abraham Lincoln (he was such a good wrestler), and Andrew Johnson (the runaway apprentice)." But the profession that enthralled him longest-more even than stagecoach driver or railroadman or lawyer-was that of printer...
...Baba and Pearl. Leonora Margaret (Princess Gold) pleased her father when she became the second wife of the late 2nd Earl of Inch-cape. Less pleased was the Raja when his daughter Elizabeth (Princess Pearl) married Jazz Bandleader Harry Roy, and his youngest daughter, Nancy Valerie (Princess Baba) married Wrestler Bob Gregory, who later divorced her because "she is always somewhere else...
...Normandy landing, one of the first things he did was to read Faces in a Dusty Picture. This brusque, vivid novel about the Libyan campaign was written by a 35-year-old veteran named Gerald Kersh-in civilian life an author, bouncer, traveling salesman, debt collector and professional wrestler; in World War II a Hemingway-mustached Tommy in Britain's oldest (1650) regiment-of-the-line, the Coldstream Guards. Now Author Kersh has followed up his dusty Faces with a lusty tribute to his famous regiment. The volume combines two books which had been previously published in England...