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After spending the war in the Army, he returned to Brown to receive his degree and graduate in 1944. That fall he joined the Chicago Bears and a backfield that included Sid Luckman, Ray McLean, and George McAfee. In his freshman season with the pros Margarita distinguished himself by ranking fourth among the ground gainers. In 1945, the year George Halas returned to the club, he finished in third place...
...truth was not enhanced by Bob's quiet, modest nature when discussing his past. Some people, for instance, think 175 pounds is light for pro football. When asked, Bob admitted that he might have been a little lighter than average, but he added that he outweighed his running mates, McLean and McAfee...
...years at Princeton, thousands of students had come to know George McLean Harper-and hundreds never forgot him. They had listened to his dry, earnest voice over a classroom lectern, or heard him read aloud a favorite poet in his sun-patched garden. They knew him as an erect and kindly man who loved all that was good in men & books. Sometimes, over milk and cakes in his garden, he would begin a quiet discussion of Milton or Sainte-Beuve, and would soon become so excited by a point that his chair would scarcely hold him. But his natural dignity...
...then comes one who, feeling most joyously 'the loveliness of the world' and most poignantly 'the corruption of the world,' strives more successfully to make the loveliness known and to drive out the corruption." The words might have been applied to George McLean Harper himself, when he died last week...
Married. Betty McLean Crump, 21, pretty granddaughter of Memphis' longtime political boss; and Frank Pidgeon Jr., 27, well-heeled son of a Tennessee ironmaker; in Memphis...