Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fish cognizant of the fact that the score against Yale come on a straight power play around end? That the gains against Army and Holy Cross were made predominantly right up the middle with the fullback? That Harvard scored on passes seven times this fall and set up three other touchdowns with passes...
...Industrial Relations Association, Dr. David Slight, Illinois state psychiatrist and onetime University of Chicago professor, told why. A generation or two ago, said he, the successful executive, like as not, was a roaring, highhanded type who grabbed what he wanted and didn't worry about shoving other people around in the process. But the 1949 executive, said Dr. Slight, feels bound by the new labor-management gospel to watch his step...
...grandfather, a good Socialist, had also been a good enough Catholic to ride in the St. Joseph's Day parade. When his mother takes Silvestro on her rounds as a practical nurse, Silvestro begins to learn his lesson: there is more than enough doom and misery to go around and man's glory is that he does not give in to them. The knowledge makes him feel much better...
Where, oh where is that plump, goggle-eyed sugar daddy with the wing collar and the clipped white mustache, who always knew the one sure way to every bubble-breasted little golddigger's heart? "Still around, but dying out," reports Cartoonist Arno. "He got hit hard by the crash and all but vanished under a bale of taxes in the '30s. Nowadays you see all kinds of people in my drawings-cab drivers, boxers, doormen-people you never saw there before. Sign of the times...
...late years Cartoonist Arno, never timid in his technique, has broadened his brush stroke and simplified his situations ("I hate messing around with complicated backgrounds"). Some up-&-coming Arno types: the chinless, chestless little husband, and the ferocious, terrapin-eyed old girl of 50 who admires ballplayers ("We do sell them sometimes, lady, but only to other teams"). Arno likes best the gagless, slapdash sketches of clowns and nudes with which he has padded out his book, even hopes to hang them in a "serious" one-man show later this season. But he admits that he finds his fans...