Word: coded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...binge and is exposed to the mature blandishments of Barbara Stanwyck, who gets him involved in a nasty murder. Corey is disbarred and Barbara dies in an auto accident over the convenient Hollywood cliff that has served as the execution block for many an offender against the Johnston Office code...
What was it all about? Football, which drew crowds and made money. Two years ago the National Collegiate Athletic Association tried to poultice the swelling with a mustard plaster called the Sanity Code. The code permitted athletes free tuition and one free training-table meal a day in season, and stipulated that part-time jobs held by athletes must be real jobs. Some 300 coaches accepted the code with their left hands and then hurried off about their proper pre-season business...
When the N.C.A.A. followed up with questionnaires asking colleges how they were living up to the code, seven of them were so annoyed that they told the truth...
...embarrassing concern of the annual N.C.A.A. convention was the trial of the "sinful seven" - Virginia, Maryland, V.M.I., V.P.I., The Citadel, Boston College and Villanova. Six of the defendants, led by Virginia's forthright ex-Governor Colgate Darden Jr. (now president of the University of Virginia), called the Sanity Code hypocritical and defied the N.C.A.A. to expel them. The Citadel had already sent in its resignation because it refused "to lie to stay in the association." At week's end, when representatives of 240 colleges were called upon to expel the rebels, 36 of them ignored the roll call...
Said outgoing N.C.A.A. President Karl Leib: "I predict we will have chaos in college athletics." If any college wanted to play Sanity Code football there was nothing to stop them - but nobody could make them...