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Even Yale's year-round practice schedule fails to perturb Bolles. "It's all right by me if they train thirteen months a year," he observed drily. "If, they get a kick out of it, more power to them, but you can only train so long before you reach a physical peak, and after that the chances of going stale are that much greater...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/11/1948 | See Source »

Denying any knowledge of either eggs or ferns, Valpey said that his only hobby outside of football was trout fishing. "And I don't think Harvard is looking for a Curator of Trout," Valpey said. "Besides, I honestly feel that football coaching is a year-round job," the Crimson's new head mentor added...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Valpey, No Egg Fancier, Had Big Role in Michigan Success | 2/25/1948 | See Source »

...steer is as fat as it will get and should be shipped, or when a cow has begun to fail as a calf-producer and should be slaughtered. He picks the calves to be saved for breeding, marks the ones to be sold. The shipping and branding is a year-round job, with fall the busiest time. Kleberg stays on a horse "because I can make more money on a horse." His slim, attractive wife, Helen, who often rides the range with him, usually adds: "Also, he'd rather be on a horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Big as All Outdoors | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

Monkey performed so well at siring a new breed that now all the cattle on the ranch are descended from him. The Santa Gertrudis breed, which is now widely sought wherever there is year-round grass feeding, has one great moneymaking virtue: it is hardier and grows heavier on grass feeding than any other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Big as All Outdoors | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...Friendship Train was only a klieg-lighted symbol of year-round generosity. Since January, individual U.S. citizens have been voluntarily giving more than $12 million a month for European relief through private agencies. Out of human sympathy, plain Americans were giving plenty of evidence that their hearts were as big as their purses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: America's Heart | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

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