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...Reader Hyde loses. The white-jerseyed men are Chicago's Halfback Jay Berwanger (with noseguard) and Captain Pete Zimmer. The dark-jerseyed players diving for the fumble are Michigan's Guard Carl Savage (who recovered) and Tackle Tom Austin...
TIME erred in calling Stanford's dark-haired Corbus "blond," but let Reader Hill mend his talk. Stanford's Corbus was named right guard on Grantland Rice's 1932 All-American team, as Grantland Rice's Manhattan office (telephone: Mohawk 4-7500) will confirm. To the Princeton freshman team and its small, twinkling Coach Johnny Gorman (the quarterback who, in the 1922 Princeton-Chicago game, called for and caught a historic forward pass in the shadow of his own goal) 23 subscriptions to TIME. To Reader Hill, the bill...
...Goupil et Cie., famous Paris art dealers, and both Vincent and Theo got jobs in the business. Theo did well from the start, but Vincent took it, like everything else, too hard. Fired from his job, he plucked up enough conceit to enter the Church as a lay-reader, got himself sent to a squalid hole in Belgium as a missionary. There too he went too far, scandalized the churchly authorities by giving away his money, his clothes, his bed. Fired again, he stayed on with his poor people, began to draw them and send his sketches to Brother Theo...
...whom he loves. "Week-End," by Carlton Brown is an amusing description of the awakening of youth, written in an impersonal vein by a man who does not attempt to analyze and explain each movement of the characters; he presents a vivid picture of his characters and allows the reader to draw all the inane conclusions...
Cleveland as a letter-writer was this side of dull, but he was impressive. Many a reader of this collection will agree with its editor that its author "possessed his measure of faults, and was pent in by even more limitations than usually afflict the race of politicians. But he had a soul that in its simple and unpretending fashion was truly heroic, and to touch his garment is to receive virtue...