Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Buff Donelli, starting his first season as the Terrier's coach, has done a remarkable job with the squad. He has moulded a few newcomers and about 30 leftovers from last fall's team into a precisioned outfit, capable of holding ground with the best teams in New England...
Like most good line coaches, Hal has a definite idea of the way his job should be done. "The only way to develop linemen is by rough work. To be efficient, a man must learn the fundamentals early and then practice them again and again. Repetition is the key: a lineman is a creature of habit. The way to develop the right habits is to make a daily repetition of the conditions that make the habit necessary...
...glass toward the end of "Odd Man Out" and saw the reflection of his enemies shouting at him from the suds, he gave a wild cry and sank to the floor. When the sounding brass of Hollywood got around to viewing the foaming beer, they might well have done the same thing, for this scene and the rest of "Odd Man Out" is so consistently above California crop standards as to blanch the stoutest of the film empire. Even the Irish Republican Army would be shaken...
...After a few false starts the sleuth realizes that Montgomery--Robert Ryan--harbors a mania against the people who stayed home during the war, especially Jews. While the remainder of the plot is not especially original in itself, the story benefits from excellent acting and a couple of well-done, anti-prejudicial speeches by Robert the First. These things make the picture novel and worth-while entertainment, but its producers could actually have gone much further with the social idea and left out some of the unnecessary, dramatic flairs. Minor complications arise at the outset for the audience...
Drawing increasingly intense responses from his audience, the former Vice-President declared that the Administration had done a complete about-face on American policy in Germany" and was now trying to revive the defeated Nazi state as a bulwark against soviet Russia...