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...cheer leaders are going to try to instill into this year's stands. Whether cheering makes the team or the team makes the cheering, as in the 1936 Princeton game, is beside the point. The point is simply that last year the cheer leaders were frankly "no good." Good yell leaders form the first requisite for good cheering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOOD CHEER | 10/2/1937 | See Source »

...during the past week Hutter has led his squad into the week Hutter has led his squad into the Stadium for practice drills. He has stressed in these sessions, just as Harlow has done in the recent football practices, the importance of timing an precession. No longer will the yell coordinators dash out upon the field, fling their megaphones away, and then swing into disorganized gyrations. At a given signal the cheers led with military accuracy...

Author: By Donald B. Straus, | Title: Perfected Cheer Leading to Appear At Soldiers Field | 10/1/1937 | See Source »

...clock: Here's the peak crowd--four hundred through in just over an hour. Watch these solicitors along the back of Memorial and on the sidewalk. The way they yell and wave paper at everyone coming out they look just like--"Pardon me, chum; but is this place being picketed?" Well, you might think so; but John L. Lewis' son enrolled at Princeton today instead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pandemonium Reigns in Memorial as 1941 Runs Gauntlet of Registration | 9/25/1937 | See Source »

...parachute, so if the writer failed to yank the 'chute open after he jumped, Crane could do it for him. At 2,000 feet. Fulenwider climbed out on the plane's wing, got his feet tangled in Crane's rope, jumped before anybody could yell at him. The 'chute did not open. The ghostwriter's story was finished, but Leslie Fulenwider did not write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Ghost Writer | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

...does not believe to be dead or helpless. . . . The discussion of all this with experienced fishermen in Nassau led naturally to the old question of what a man should do if he found himself in the water with sharks nearby. All of us agreed that he should kick, splash, yell, and raise all possible commotion but none of us would wish to be held responsible for giving such advice. Frankly, I should be willing to let the shark have the swimming hole, and I would raise no question of riparian privilege...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 28, 1937 | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

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