Word: zane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...halfback line has been hit hardest by graduation, but sophomore Alex Haegler, one of the team's five foreigners, has looked excellent in practice and will start at center half. He is fast, with good footwork. Craig Zane will understudy...
...halfbacks are still completely undecided. Jim Callahan, Bobby Dean, Tony Zane, Ernie Young, and Jack Whiting are all in the running for a halfback post; with sophomores Haegler, Weiss, and McIntosh pressing hard...
...dream world peopled by glamorous alter egos. Sometimes she imagined herself to be a young lady of great poise named Sassafrassa, who combined the best features of Pearl White, Mabel Normand and Pola Negri. Another make-believe identity was Madeline, a beauteous cowgirl who emerged from the pages of Zane Grey's melodramatic novel, The Light of Western Stars, To get authentic background for Madeline, young Lucille corresponded with the chambers of commerce of Butte and Anaconda, Mont. She read and reread their publicity handouts until she felt she knew more about Montana than the people who lived there...
...Texas Sportsman Alfred C. Glassell Jr., the world's record for game fish on rod & reel, a 1,025-lb. black marlin boated on 39-thread line, off Cabo Blanco, Peru. (In 1930, near Tahiti, Zane Grey caught a giant striped marlin that weighed 1,040 lbs., but the record was disqualified because sharks had bitten off a chunk-about 300 lbs.-of the tail...
...real name was Edward Zane Carroll Judson. His father, Levi Judson, fifth generation of an old Connecticut family, wrote solemn essays on the nature of man, and tried his best to ground his son in the elements of decent behavior. Ned was about twelve years old when he ran away to sea; at 15 he was a midshipman in the Navy. At 21, he was dashing off sea stories and editing Ned Buntline's Magazine (a "buntline" is the rope at the bottom of a square sail). Two years later, a recent widower, he was caught in a Nashville...