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...Best actress: Grace Kelly, for her role as the sad-mouthed wife of the down-and-out actor in The Country Girl...
Within three years he was city editor. A year later, hating his desk job, he went back to reporting, started his column in 1921. Soon he became known as a friend of the down-and-out. Hoboes tapped him for "coffee money" so often that Post staffers put a sign next to his desk proclaiming Segal "King of Vagabonds." (His penchant for giving away his money finally got to the point where his wife put in a rationing plan-just enough for carfare, lunch and two daily glasses of sherry.) Between columns he covered news stories, and the friends that...
...prominent local architect, had tried to start up her Chevrolet one morning last month and been killed by a bomb planted under the hood and hooked up to the ignition system. Her husband. Harry, 67, told police he suspected that his ex-son-in-law, Harry Washburn, a down-and-out Houston contractor, was involved in the murder. Washburn, said Weaver, had been threatening the family and trying to extort money. But District Attorney Aubrey Stokes had other ideas. He told newsmen he thought Architect Weaver himself was the guilty man, expected to arrest him for the killing...
...field, the pros are capable of pulling the perfect play: that heart-warming performance when every blocker gets his man and a long pass connects or a shifty runner is shaken loose for a touchdown. The man in the stands needs a quick eye to spot the subtleties of down-and-out pass patterns (ends charging straight downfield, then suddenly cutting for the sidelines), flaring halfbacks (who sneak through the line of scrimmage to take a pass in the flat) and looping defenses (in which defensive linemen feint to one side before charging to the other...
...from the Ozarks and onto the airwaves has come the greatest flock of hillbilly and western stars ever assembled. Its the "Hayloft Jamboree of '53 on WCOP," as the announcer joyously introduces it. For a full hour, the characters chew over drawls, and flawlessly read down-to-earth humor from down-and-out scripts...