Word: flipness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tacoma home, where he enjoys martinis and practical jokes. In the basement he has a complete woodworking shop where he makes and repairs furniture. Not all his carpentering is successful. One winter Phil built a 15-foot sailboat with his two sons, George and John Philip III (Flip), now students of forestry at Yale. (There are also two daughters.) When launched, the boat promptly sank; it was badly caulked...
...Polo Grounds one day, The Lip declared, with a flip of his hand: "I don't want any nice guys on my ball club. The nice guys are over there on the Giants' bench, and where are they? In last place...
...keep his story as fresh as the news on Page One, Caniff shamelessly picks the brains of his pals, and even copies their faces. Colonel Phil Cochran, an old college chum, gave him a correspondence course in flying-and won more fame as Colonel Flip Corkin than for leading the glider invasion of Burma under his own name. Red Cross and Army nurses midwifed Caniff's yellow-tressed Nurse Taffy Tucker. Caniff had been to Britain, Europe and Africa, but never to the Orient, where all the action in Terry took place...
...times Caniff ever preached to his readers was when he had Terry Lee win his wings in China. Terry and the readers got a long, stern graduation speech from his commander Flip Corkin on courage, skill and honor among airmen. That Sunday page was read into the Congressional Record. An aide showed it to Patterson, who growled: "Who does Caniff think he is, Robert Emmet Sherwood?" ("He had to go and name a playwright I admire," says Caniff.) Once Caniff, excited by the morale value of his strip, suggested that the Daily News be sent free to remote post exchanges...
...managers expressed it yesterday, the idea this year will be to work the ball under the basket by well-integrated plays, "so that any member of the team can take any shot called for." This may not be so exciting as seeing Wyndol Gray take a favorite one hand flip shot, but the general opinion around the coaching bench is that more integrated team play is the kind of ball best suited to the present material...