Word: absentmindedness
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The Drake University Athletic Council was hopping mad. Its members had just finished watching movies of the game with Oklahoma A. & M., and they showed how Drake Halfback Johnny Bright, the nation's leading ground gainer (and the first Negro ever to play at Stillwater, Okla.), was knocked out...
Professor Mario Attilio Levi, a lean, walrus-mustached scholar of 60, is well known in Italy as an authority on Dante; among his colleagues he is also known to be a trifle absentminded. Riding home on a streetcar to his apartment in Rome that hot July day in 1948, he...
One of them knew a runner who got so nervous before a race that he was afraid to walk down steps and had to be carried by teammates. At those times, Herb McKenley, the great Jamaican quarter-miler, walks around in a stupor, unable to speak when spoken to. Sweden...
F.D.R. brought him to Washington, in 1941 sent him to Great Britain as Ambassador. The English loved absentminded, honest Gil Winant. Once, when asked to make a speech, he stood in agonized silence for four minutes, finally said, softly: "The worst mistake I ever made was in getting up in...
For half of his 65 years, John James Audubon did not appear to be destined for anything in particular. The bastard son of a French sea captain and a Santo Domingo Creole, he grew up in France when Jean Jacques Rousseau's back-to-nature notions were the rage...