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...Cadets had gone into the game a demoralized football team. After losing to North Carolina, 62-8, the week before, Army entered the Harvard game with severely depleted ranks. Halfback Gerald Walker, one of the finest running backs in the East and the heart of the West Point offense, was expected to play Saturday after recovering from a shoulder injury. But at the last minute, doctors told Coach Ed Cavanaugh that Walker had to stay off the field...
From a Norfolk, Neb., high school yearbook, 1943: "To one of the finest comedians that has hit school. If you aren't killed in the war, you'll really make good...
...historical hedge is curious. "One of the finest ..." Is it possible that Norfolk produced some other talent that elected to hang around Main Street or stay down on the farm? Can it be that somewhere in the great Midwest there is a native-born comedian who opens a meeting of the Jaycees with seven minutes of stand-up comedy, then brings on the other members of the chamber to sit on a sofa and spin out their schemes and notions for promotion? Is there, somewhere, another Johnny Carson...
...fuse with Sir Noel's talent to amuse? At a press conference in Los Angeles announcing their first joint outing on Broadway this spring, the blithe spirit of the Burton-Taylor repartee could have been orchestrated by the Master himself. Said Taylor: "Richard is one of the finest actors of this century." Burton interrupted her: "One of the . ..?" Taylor replied: "You will probably be upstaging me." Burton shot back: "No, it's downstaging, my dear, I'll have to teach you that." Whether she learns or not, it was Coward who first suggested, in 1968, that they...
...vinyl, The Who were consistently just as impressive. Master piece succeeded masterpiece, from the infamous Tommy to Who's Next. Townshend always had something relevant to say and managed to create impressive scores that were bolstered by the finest of rhythm sections: Keith Moon on drums and John Entwistle on bass...