Word: attacke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rough & Tumble. Hustling Hubert Humphrey doesn't fit the usual conception of a U.S. Senator. A glib, jaunty spellbinder with a "listen-you-guys" approach, he talks and looks more like a high-school science teacher who coaches basketball on the side. He has the cyclonic attack of an advertising salesman. A charter member (and this week the new national chairman) of Americans for Democratic Action, a coalition of leftist, non-Communist intellectuals and displaced New Dealers, he has little use for the old party-machine school of politics...
Died. Victor Fleming, 60, top-drawer Hollywood director (Joan of Arc); of a heart attack; near Cottonwood, Ariz. Fleming made his reputation directing Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and Jean Harlow (Test Pilot, Captains Courageous, Bombshell), won a 1939 Oscar for Gone With the Wind...
There was nothing wrong with the varsity attack last night which could not be attributed to the three week layoff. The Crimson third line looked better than at any time this season. Center Doug Anderson picked up two goals, Joe Kittredge an assist, and George Loring another goal. They passed well, pounced on rebounds, and showed little respect for highly touted Eagle defenseman Butch Songin...
...getting in each other's way, blocking goalie Clark's view and leaving the B.C. skaters to whip around and score. Good hockey teams have one or two men playing the point to block shots; the Crimson always had four milling around. Then, when the team was on the attack, the defensemen frequently overcommitted themselves leaving the goal virtually unprotected...
Brinton declined to attack the Tribune personally saying, "you don't enter a hissing contest with a goose." He had been a chief target of the newspaper's attacks...