Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gene McDonald credits his pretty composer-wife, Inez Riddle McDonald (Romance, Cancion), for WWZR's lofty standards. Certainly the block-jawed Commander, now 55, gave little time to music in the old days. Until he was 41, he had no time for marriage. He led a swashbuckling, lickety-split life that might have exhausted even such stalwarts as Humphrey Bogart and Douglas MacArthur, both of whom the Commander resembles...
...high-tension 39 to 37 revenge victory over Yale on January 16, the Stahlmen will be looking for their eighth triumph in nine starts, Holy Cross being the lone victor. But the Jumbos, led by Captain Bob Skarda and his well-trained push shots, may well prove a stumbling block; two of the Crimson's thirteen defeats last year were suffered at their hands...
...desired objectives . . . can not be reached if we are led to expect more and more for less and less effort; if labor organizations or industrial organizations are to take purely selfish positions that block the road to production and distribution; or if political leaders are unwilling to face a reduction in Government expenditures and are to assume that a policy of deficit financing can succeed any better in the future than it did in the decade 1930-40. The result of these can be nothing but the debasement of our currency and a lowering of the standard of living...
Indestructible Man. In Chicago, Charles Anderson, slightly injured when beaned by a block from a scaffold, was forthwith flattened by a passing motorcycle...
...world's best golfer, the Los Angeles Open tourney was always a pesky stumbling block. Byron Nelson had never won it, actually finished out of the money (worse than 16th) five years ago. In his jinx tourney last week, played on the country's third toughest course, Perfectionist Nelson slipped on an early 18-inch putt, blamed wet turf, then rolled flawlessly home with a winning 284. Nelson's most likely challenger was not present: a hit-'em-a-mile amateur, Army Lieutenant Gary Middlecoff, who burned up the fairways while on furlough last fall...