Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writing behind the by-line has covered Harvard football for a Boston newspaper from the Valley Forge of Coach Dick Harlow's postwar informals right up to today's Yale game. Perhaps better than any other undergraduate he knows what has to be done to make a football team out of a group of half-a-ahundred first day candidates...
...Saturday we beat Holy Cross I saw two guys I'd never heard of, and another that I'd forgotten, torpedo those huge Holy Cross linesmen. They were Dick Guidera, Jerry Kanter, and Nick Rodis. I could not imagine, too, how I had forgotten number 77's name because he was getting endless tackles. Then there was little Hal Moffle who took a handoff from Nick Athans and went 80 some yards for a T. D. None of these men individually was a hero, it dawned upon me: they were a businesslike team...
...Between Dick Tracy, Hamlet, Joyce and Miss Handy what kind of material can "literary undergraduate publications" expect in the future? Mr. Raphaelson is ready with any verdict...
...talents of a very fine cast are completely wasted in this poorly written and miserably directed show. Dick Powell, who makes an excellent "T-" and an even better "G-man," plays the tough officer convincingly. He has a certain feel for a part that calls for a bone-crushing fight. But Mr. Powell is no cowboy and the required high-heeled boots probably give him blisters. Agnes Moorehead, a star of great magnitude, has been given a silly bit that is beyond even her ability to salvage. She plays a supposedly sympathetic character, but the direction and the dialogue unfortunately...
Miss Handy, as a staff-member of Signature, is at least partly responsible for the material the magazine runs. I suggest that she ponder the paradox of stories being harder to follow than Dick Tracy when they have less substance, which is often the case. And if she can go on from there to make the stories that do have substance as easy to follow as their content allows, instead of the opposite, Signature will become worth reading, and people will begin to buy it. Just the way they buy the funny-papers. Or Hamlet...