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Last week fellow coaches, voting in the Scripps-Howard newspapers annual poll, handed Charley the laurel wreath of the profession: they voted him "Coach of the Year." With III first-place votes out of 384, he led Runners-Up Lynn Waldorf of California (50 first-place votes), Bud Wilkinson of Oklahoma (42), Bob Neyland of Tennessee (34), and 55 others...
What can a man do? Be nice to his players? That's old stuff. Only amateurs like Bud Wilkinson or Benny Oesterbaan would do that...
Clay persuaded Lawrence Wilkinson, 45, onetime banker who served in the Ordnance Department during the war, to resign a postwar banking job for the $17,500 post of defense director. Their staff consisted of 55 full-time employees, four of them volunteers. The key men in their setup were the state's own department heads in Albany, e.g., the Commissioners of Housing, Health, the Director of Safety, the Superintendent of Public Works...
...Burden Bearers. Clay's was a planning and coordinating job. Wilkinson was the commission's operating head. As a first step they enlisted 109 county and city directors of civilian defense to work beyond and below the state level. The enormous task of organizing the defenses of New York City fell to Arthur W. Wailander, onetime police commissioner, now on leave from a job with a utility company. On Wallander and his staff would fall the burden of trying to pick up the shattered pieces of humanity, industry and communications while aid, directed by Clay's state...
...which readers are invited to try their hands at everything from formal French sonnets to clerihews. Prizes range from one to six guineas ($2.94 to $17.64). In one competition, calling for parodies of the style of any novelist named Green or Greene, third prize (one guinea) went to "M. Wilkinson" for his parody of Novelist Graham Greene. "M. Wilkinson" turned out to be Novelist Greene himself, who complained that two other entries under different pseudonyms had won him no prizes...