Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assistant exclaimed when Hutchins first explained his plan...
Last spring Robert Hutchins married his former secretary, petite, pretty, 31-year-old Vesta Orlick (he was divorced from his first wife in 1948). His new marriage seems to agree with him (he quipped: "I think I'll try it every year"). He now likes cooking (including baked cucumbers & cheese), and, after years of pretended disdain for outdoor exercise ("I believe in it for others"), fishing...
...formation crackled and snapped to send a strong Missouri team down, 27-7, for its worst defeat of the year. The only one of the four that got a good scare was Army. In Philadelphia's Franklin Field, desperate Pennsylvania switched to a two-platoon system for the first time and made 23 first downs to Army's ten. But Army, an old hand at two-platooning, squeaked by, 14-13. Hay in the Barn. Apart from the big four, the only team of any stature left that was still unbeaten was Virginia. In 192-lb. Johnny Papit...
...ball. Coach Wilkinson thinks it is good for morale to let everybody help to score the touchdowns. In the era of super-coaching, when defensive and offensive adjustments are made up to the instant the ball is snapped, a new type of football player is in demand. The first quality Wilkinson and other topflight coaches look for, even in linemen: ability to react quickly...
Covent Garden's 24-year-old Producer Peter Brook had warned that his new Salome "is not a production; it's an hallucination." A superconfident, baby-faced wonder boy who likes to shock, Brook had looked for a designer for the Royal Opera House's first Salome of its own since 1936 who could "reflect visually both the cold, fantastic imagery of Wilde's text and the hot eroticism of [the late Richard] Strauss's music." In mustached Surrealist Salvador Dali, he thought he had found his man. Gleefully, producer and designer hatched their plans...