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...system is the most systematic of all. It consists simply in inventing plays to suit his players instead of choosing players who can execute his plays. This year, Northwestern lacks a crack line plunger and good pass-receiving ends. Consequently, the Northwestern attack is built around plays designed to shake running backs clear on off-tackle thrusts, supplemented by short passes to receiving backs. Like many other coaches this year, Northwestern's Waldorf capitalizes "mousetrap" plays-allowing an opposing lineman a clear path to the backfield where a back takes him out of the play allowing the ball carrier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 23, 1936 | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

Always two steps ahead of the crowd, the band enters on its most ambitious afternoon of the year, according to baton-twirler Irwin. However, to show that there is really no bad blood between the rival syncopators, the Harvard and Yale bands will shake hands in musical style before the fight. After marching in the bands will form together an intertwined insignia of the two colleges. Then while in massed formation, the Crimson Director, Robert W. Snyder '38, will lead the Yale song and the director of the Yale band Otto H. Helbig '38 Mus., will lead the Harvard song...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Bandsmen Intend to Knock 'L' Out of Yale Between Halves at Yale | 11/21/1936 | See Source »

...fact, choosing if anything, the worst pieces of surface, I sailed down the middle of Bishop's Avenue hating the whole performance like poison, for I loathe so to treat a car . . . potholes a foot deep are everywhere. . . . Cars with orthodox springing, even of the best kind, shake the teeth in one's head as they pass over Bishop's Avenue. . . . Ghastly thuds sounded beneath the car as the road wheels rose and fell, but the classic shape of the well-known radiator in front of me scarcely pitched. And watching my rear passengers in the driving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Swank | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...Landon, oil and gas business," Alf Landon & wife cast blank ballot after blank ballot for the photographers. On the way to the two-room office with "Alf M. Landon" on the doors of the Citizens National Bank Building, the Nominee had to stop time & again to shake hands with old friends. Most of them called him "Alf" or "Governor," but a few addressed him as "Mr. President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Results: President-Reject | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...bronze is Liberty's skin but hand-hammered sheets of pure copper about the thickness of a silver dollar. Each sheet is anchored to an iron strap, tied with iron girders to the central skeleton (see cut). Even the nearby Black Tom explosion of 1916 did not shake it. In 50 years it has not sagged, cracked or corroded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Liberty's Jubilee | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

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