Word: yarns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, while Old Zup made plans to retire to his farm-to pursue his twin hobbies of raising cattle and painting landscapes-football's Saturday-night round-table exhumed many a Zuppke yarn. Bob Zuppke never lost his "Dutch brogue," is nearly as famed a raconteur as coach. His pet butt used to be Notre Dame's Knute Rockne, of whom he once said: "Everybody vants to know vat Rock puts in his football besides vind...
...others on Rube had been plenty sore when people claimed there never was any such hero as Reuben James. That was when they named destroyer 607 (laid down at San Francisco last July) Daniel Frazier. Some scholar had dug into the books and found that the Rube James yarn was a phony; that the name of the hero who saved Stephen Decatur was really Daniel Frazier, and that was why the Department called 607 the Daniel Frazier. The boys on Rube refused to believe...
Thanks for the story in TIME, Oct. 6, giving the good old yarn of "Pislam Siv." It happens that the clergy and seminarians, at least in my seminary days, enjoyed that a good many times! However, as we told it, the psalm...
...rattling good yarn full of the healthy animal instincts, presented in a very colorful fashion. As for the rest of the program, a fair Information Please and a not-so-good March of Time appear with the Grade Z picture "Forced Landing." If you're in the mood, "Aloma of the South Seas" is good entertainment, but cut the rest...
Progress. In Washington a patent was awarded for a steak woven of meat "yarn...