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There has been no recent trend in football captains: linemen and backs have split honors in recent years. End Don Forte was preceded by backs Franny Lee, Joe Gardella and Torby MacDonald as Crimson grid leader. In 1938 end Bobby Green shook hands with the officials before the game and made the decisions on penalties, responsibilities of every captain...
...France by Hitler's occupation of the Vichy zone, emerged the specter of French politics. The week's events, starting from the innocent assumption of U.S. military men that control of French Northwest Africa had best be given into trusted and experienced French hands, soon threatened to split Allied feelings along the well-known line of Vichy v. De Gaulle...
...Jack") Webb was the greatest teacher Dr. Rice ever met. Webb had a wisdom bump on his forehead the size of half a walnut, used to sit talking to himself and trimming his grey beard with pocket scissors. He taught Greek, English, history, math, everything -sitting in a split-bottom chair and gently posing riddles to his pupils. Says Dr. Rice: "More Rhodes Scholars came from Webb School than from any other in the world...
...wrong side of a New York election. He had named his own candidate, Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr.; but his convention fight with the forces of Franklin Roosevelt (TIME, Aug. 31) had left scars. The American Labor Party, once a little gold mine of Democratic votes, had split off to name its own candidate. The Democrats' campaign had gone wrong from the start...
...unmarried status, they furiously confiscate Nugget and Seely, settle them in respectable Bisbee homes. Lover Gaye is too weak to fight for his "family," too ambitious not to rise to the top in Arizona politics once he has discarded the unpopular Tacey. The ironic result of the family split is that young Seely suffers torments in the strange hands of "nice" people, grows up to be virtually a high-class prostitute. At the end of the book Nugget, Seely, Gaye and Tacey are reunited, but they are all so changed that it is doubtful whether the wounds of separation...