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...Notebook of Maxims. In his office on Michigan's campus, Bennie Oosterbaan keeps a notebook filled with the sayings of the late great Michigan coach, Fielding ("Hurry-Up") Yost. "The will to win is not worth a nickel," says one of the Yost maxims, "unless you have the will to prepare." Oosterbaan, who played under Yost, follows that rule rigidly. For three hours every morning, an hour and a half before afternoon practice and two hours afterward, he and his assistants lay plans for the next game. Key decisions are often settled by a staff vote...
Time's technique is perhaps best revealed in its weekly column on the Presidency. Its reports on Presidential behavior are able to rise above objectivity and perceive distinctions where none are apparent. Thus, "President Truman flapped open his leather notebook and began in his usual flat tone to read his message to Congress on the State of the Union. When he finished 45 minutes later, he had made little news...
Shirtless and sun-blackened, Bill Falls's body lay face upward under one wing of the crumpled Taylorcraft. Near by was a scrawl-filled notebook addressed to Charles Schrieber. Excerpts...
They walked all night. They walked all the next day. When Shinn reached San Felipe ahead of his lagging companions 24 hours later, he was hysterical and nearly blind. In his hand was Bill Falls's notebook. He had carried...
...clog dances, miming Chinese laundrymen, Swedish servant girls and balloon-pants Dutch comics, the team clicked in Boston and New York. Harrigan discovered that he could write, and found a timely subject, the clash of the immigrant races amid settings of squalid realism. Haunting the "Bloody Sixth" Ward with notebook in hand, Harrigan transplanted New York lowlife to the stage to the immense delight of such real-life prototypes in the peanut gallery as One-Lung Pete, Slobbery Jack and Jake the Oyster. Together with his father-in-law David Braham, Harrigan also turned out over 200 songs...