Word: armful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another 155-pounder is Sandy Jones, a scholastic champion from Oklahoma who sawed himself out of a tree last season, broke his right arm, and was out of action for most of the campaign. Moving up to 165, Jordan will go along with Louria, at least until February, while at 175 he has Bob Claflin, who tied for fourth with Louria in the eastern semi-finals last March...
...their booking arm has tightened its hold, the Shuberts' producing arm has become almost completely lax. This year they have produced only one show. They prefer-and are usually able-to fill their theaters with hits by other producers, turn out their own shows only when there are not enough to go around. Now, with theaters scarce, they get rentals of 35% of gross receipts, and up. With all their houses occupied by hits or near-misses, Shubert theaters are taking in money at the rate of $60 million a year...
Hollow Triumph (Eagle-Lion) is the rather listless story of a gentleman-gangster (Paul Henreid) who puts himself on the spot by robbing a gambling joint. He is menaced from every side by bullets until he finds shelter under the long, protective arm of coincidence. He discovers that he has an exact double in town-a Dr. Bartok, psychoanalyst. Jittery Gangster Henreid decides to murder Psychoanalyst Henreid and take over his job beside the couch. He learns, through hard experience, that neuroses can be as dangerous as guns. Joan Bennett is the doctor's pretty, hard-boiled secretary...
With this tome under his arm, Nelson found a coaching job at Hillsdale College before the start of the '46 season. As athletic director and head football coach of the 800-man school, he lost only one game in his two-year stay--the second game of his opening season. From then until November of '47 two ties were the only marks on an otherwise perfect record...
...years, New Dealism was forgotten; even Harry Hopkins, according to Sherwood, was sick of "those Goddamn New Dealers." In this period the economy needed no shot in the arm. But even in 1946-48, the demise of New Dealism seemed definitely to be on the way; and it was difficult for the objective observer to understand the unpopularity of a public policy which had done so much for the masses. As we look back now, it may well be that what was interpreted as a repudiation of New Deal or Keynesian economics, upon which it was largely built...