Football, for instance, started out back at the turn of the former century without any forward pass. The ball had to be carried on the ground all the way to the goal line. The story of Jim Thorpe’s amazing abilities and scoring was all done prior to the forward pass. It was Knute Rockne,…

              All the way through grammar school and college I struggled with not being able to be any good at learning any languages, especially foreign ones. From the get-go I was a lousy speller, even in English. I’ll always remember, much to my chagrin, when my friend Leon, a first rate English professor,  was…