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...hate to disappoint people who expect something sensational . . . but trick plays of the shoestring variety don't constitute a successful football system. You've got to go back to the bedrock of blocking, tackling, and position play, and rehearse your kids until they are letter perfect in their assignments...
...nothing but a beautiful girl, a time-bomb, and a teletype machine. The question is, what shall she do? Shall he lose the girl (who doesn't want him to do anything without first asking the censor) by sending the story without the censor's consent? Or shall he disappoint his boss and his much-talked-of ninety million readers by not sending it? You can get the answer to these vital questions b running up to the UT and buying a ticket. But if you're smart you'll save your money and find out from a friend...
...exotic leading lady, Sherman B. Cawley, will disappoint his public in the coming showing of "Blondes For Defense"--he didn't convince the draft board...
...instructors who lacked first-hand acquaintance with the details of Army requirements. Speed-up courses in languages and sciences have been arranged, based on the general knowledge that physicists and interpreters are needed. But many of these have been announced without even hinting at the physical requirements that may disappoint a trainee after a year of study. And insufficient attention has been paid to the fact that none of the new courses actually guarantee an Army or Navy position...
...this quest for a brief three minutes of entertainment, there are fortunately a few names which rarely disappoint. Everyone raves about Duke Ellington, and his bandwagon is one on which I have long been riding. Duke has abandoned the overwrought orchestrations he was writing a few years ago, and has reverted to arrangements more in the jazz idiom, with wider opportunities for his soloists. Last week he turned out Five O'clock Drag and Clementine, two original riff numbers arranged in the Ellington tradition of unexpected effects and frequent dissonance's, particularly in the brass section. Clementine...