Magazines: Balm for a Gloomy Bear

Ever since last spring, said University of Alabama Football Coach Paul Bryant, he has been unable to keep his mind on his work. Instead, his thoughts kept turning darkly to a March 1963 Saturday Evening Post article that accused him and Wally Butts, former football coach at the University of Georgia, of trying to fix a football game. Bryant also remembered an earlier Post article claiming that he taught "excessively rough football." Last week the Post's parent Curtis Publishing Co. took a long step toward relieving "Bear" Bryant's gloom. It handed him...

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