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Uncivil Liberties
Trillin, Calvin | November 29, 1986 issue

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This article compares the character of George Gipp, played by U.S. President Ronald Reagan in a movie and Reagan himself, in his reel life. The author found Gipp in an old-age home in Sandusky, Ohio. People don't believe that in real life George Gipp, who died so nobly on the screen, survived his illness or that he went to Notre Dame only because he couldn't get into Holy Cross. They don't believe that in real life, the Notre Dame football team lost the game it had been asked to win for Gipp, to raise funds for the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Gipp used to study his "Gipper map," the map he had used to keep track of how many different electorates President Reagan had asked to win one for the Gipper.

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GIPP, George, 1895-1920; REAGAN, Ronald; PRESIDENTS -- United States; HOLY Cross; MOTION pictures; FUND raising; UNITED States
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