Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adapt them to a physical framework that the casual observer would associate more with stolid immovability than shiftiness. He has had plenty of opportunity to do so in his long and varied athletic past, which extends back to the late '20s, when he was an all around school star at Clare, Michigan...
...shows is that the Captain can't "leap tall buildings at a single bound," or perform any of Superman's other specialties. His scope of activities is thereby diminished, along with the quality of his antagonists. The villains may still be mad geniuses, but they don't pitch planets around. Some of them do threaten mankind, although on a lesser scale, of course...
...instance, here's how Madar scouted Dartmouth against Penn last October 2. Around 10 o'clock on the Friday before the game, he drove from his Brookline home to the Indoor Athletic Building (where the Columbia game rally had taken place a few hours earlier) and then took the subway to South Station. Before boarding the midnight sleeper, he bought several newspapers, "to get a preliminary idea of the game and pick up some of the atmosphere." Previously he had studied all available movies of the Dartmouth team in action, and had gone over scouting reports on the Big Green...
Superman's activities alternate between the sublime and the petty. He will strain his immortal faculties to save the world (or the universe) from destruction one week, and the next series will find him messing around with a local gambling outfit or solving a murder that any ordinary homicide burean could handle. Strangely enough, these two kinds of adventures consume the same amount of time (two weeks); a fact which tends to confuse the pint-sized audience on the relative values of universe-saving as opposed to the detection of crime...
Bingham will continue his annual war on scalpers in the traditional contest by stationing three agents from the Cambridge police force strategically around Harvard Square. These three men, Lieutenants Breen, Robbins, and Murphy, are the same officers who cracked the Coop robbery...