Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though Coach Bill Barclay has done a bit of re-shuffling in the lineup--Larry Gray is playing his first Varsity match today in the number six spot--he doesn't expect that Amherst will prove as tough a nut to crack as Williams last Wednesday. "We just squeaked through at Williamstown," the team's "pro" asserted yesterday...
...outfit is currently releasing 23 high-rating open-enders, has 30 crack salesmen retailing them to advertisers all over the U.S. Ziv's chief sales targets: advertisers who can't afford (or don't want) to buy time on a full network. Some of his open-ends are filled in by as many as 80 advertisers on 200 stations. Ziv's 1946 income: about $7.5 million; the pickings would be much, much fatter after an earthquake...
...these betwixt-&-betweeners, Brown University was doing its best last week. At Providence, R.I., it had set up a new Veterans College, where 437 ex-G.I.s and eight women who could not meet regular admissions standards were getting a crack at a college education anyway. Some of them had never finished high school, others had barely skidded through with less than the customary 15 college-entrance units. Most of them had applied to a university and been turned down flat...
...unbreakable British backbone. It tells the story of the lower-middle-class Gibbons family between Wars I & II. The film opens and ends with a fine Technicolor shot of the roofs of London. In the closing shot the roofs lie defenseless to the hell that is soon to crack them open. But by then, Coward has made clear how ready the people under the roofs are to endure the worst and to prevail against it. He shows this never through flat heroics, but through the quiet, immense courage, patience, kindliness and common sense which give structure, and a certain majesty...
...Brooklyn, where the fans are practiced in spotting phonies, color is something that cannot be faked, and a phony is someone who has color but not ability. Durocher has immense ability. In his day he was a crack fielding shortstop, and in eight years as manager he won Brooklyn its first pennant in 21 years (in 1941) and finished worse than third only once...