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...Welsh, I wonDurwood Penn lend us a few players," wheezed the Sage of the Age. "Gee, what I'd Gifford a Bitler of talent. What a Gudaitis to play! Kuczynski's quite the Kidner, but we should have him Cummings and going before the afternoon is over, if not dying froMunger...
After Coach George Munger led the team in a calisthenics drill, the boys practiced passing and kicking. Wingback Jackie Welsh, a left-footed punter, struck terror into the hearts of the few Crimson supporters watching with several long, angled spirals of better than 60 yards...
...four men behind Penn's formidable 200-pound line will be Welsh, Stiff, Martin, and Bill Miller, tailback speed-boy who looked very good against George Pre-Flight, a pro-studded outfit which triumphed over the Quakers, 14 to 6. This is as accomplished a quartet as can be found in collegiate circles, and Penn's backfield replacements are topflight...
Next day glib, robust Aneurin Bevan, Welsh Laborite and cofounder (with Sir Stafford Cripps) of the leftist weekly Tribune, rose in Parliament to attack Churchill. Said he: "Mr. Churchill is no longer able to summon the spirit of the British people because he represents policies they deeply distrust." Laborite Bevan was so biliously personal that even London's most liberal columnist, A. J. Cummings of the News Chronicle, called him "an arch-exhibitionist . . . who gave a deplorable exhibition of bad manners, bad temper and bad criticism...
Born on a Tennessee farm of Scotch-Welsh parents, McGill worked his way through Vanderbilt University (where he played star tackle and belonged to the famed literary group of "Fugitives"), took time out to fight with the Marines in World War I. At political odds with the chancellor, he left shortly before the end of his senior year, went to the Nashville Banner as sports editor under his fellow classman (now publisher) James Geddes Stahlman. He originated a popular, Will Rogerish column called I'm the Gink, branched into political writing with prodigious energy. Shortly after going...