Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fred Ravreby will replace Stretch Mazzone at left end, and Chuck Roche has taken over Jimmy Noonan's job at tailback, but otherwise the starting lineup remains the same as in the Lion game
...coach is also pretty proud of his executive officer. Shepard's assistant is a tall blond Dartmouth man called Floyd Wilson, who also has served a stretch in the Orient. He played basketball for Marine teams in China in 1945. His present job is to break Shepard into the intricacies of Eastern intercollegiate League Ball; in about two weeks Wilson will take over the freshman team. Shepard says "I needed someone who had played the northeastern circuit...
...word was relayed through the drive-ins, malt shops and garages speckling the Los Angeles suburbs. "Tonight, Sepulveda and Hawthorne." By 10 p.m., 100 hopped-up jalopies and denuded, low-slung hot rods had gathered at a mile-and-a-half stretch of straight highway between suburban Torrance and Redondo Beach...
...rural atmosphere is part of the Stanford scheme. Away from the crowded cities, boys and girls, or rather roughs and coeds as they are called, are supposed to grow up in an invigorating atmosphere. The University's 9000 acres give students room to get up and stretch, while the intellectual advantages of San Francisco remain only 33 miles away...
...wage boost (25? an hour), pensions and other benefits. But when it started negotiating with the Norwalk Tire & Rubber Co., the union made a disturbing discovery: the firm, already in bankruptcy and operating in receivership, was so close to failure it might close up entirely if it had to stretch its payroll. At a special meeting last week, the Norwalk rubber workers voted, 124 to 45, to drop their demands and to take wage cuts averaging 11? an hour. Explained Union Secretary Caesar Malaterra: "Members felt it was better to keep working than to take a chance of having...