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...Coach. Last week's repercussions to the scandal centered around a New York appearance by the Army's athletic director and football coach, Earl Blaik (whose son and star quarterback, Bob Blaik, is one of the accused cadets). Coach Blaik called his sportwriter friends together to announce that he was not leaving the Academy in its dark hour...
Scottish Artist Archibald Robertson painted it in 1792, on commission from Washington's distant kinsman, the eleventh Earl of Buchan. The earl's fancy: to have a picture of his revolutionary relation as first President of the U.S. Supposedly mislaid, the picture was found hanging in the hall of the 15th earl in 1939, identified as Robertson's Washington. Last May, the earl sent it off to Sulgrave Manor (since 1914 a Washington shrine). Not especially publicity conscious, Sulgrave Manor just got around to announcing the acquisition last week...
Yangtse Incident, by Lawrence Earl. The story of H.M.S. Amethyst's memorable dash down the Yangtse after 101 days under Communist guns (TIME, July...
...Angeles ratcatcher, W. Earl Duclus was a champion. He still claims the alltime record for rats trapped there in one day (1,072 in 1924). Now he is a mosquito slayer, and his exploits are fully as impressive. More than any other man, he is responsible for keeping sprawling Los Angeles comparatively free of the little bloodsuckers...
Yangtse Incident, by Lawrence Earl. The story of H.M.S. Amethyst's memorable dash down the Yangtse after 101 days under Communist guns (TIME, July...