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...grand opening of Northeastern's gym on Saturday was a complete flop as far as its team was concerned. An undefeated University of Massachusetts five beat the Huskies...
...preaching practice. Billy began at a Tampa mission for derelicts, drunks and dope addicts. His first church sermon came on Easter evening in 1938, and was a dismal flop. But Billy went on practicing -mostly exhorting the fish and alligators of a nearby swamp to leave their evil ways and be saved. He preached his first real revival at the Baptist Church of East Palatka, Fla. in June 1939. Halfway through the week-long series, word spread that Preacher Graham, nominally a Presbyterian, had never been immersed. One look at the shocked and sour faces before him and Billy...
...Adlai Stevenson, he is an odds-on bet to get the job-a political fact that intensely irks Butler's fellow Hoosier, ex-Chairman Frank McKinney. In a vengeful mood McKinney leaked a story that Mitchell's big, $100-a-plate fund-raising dinner would be a flop, that seats were selling, and not very well, for $7.50. The story was half true, but insignificant: tickets for every kind of fund-raising dinner are invariably sold at cut rates at the last minute in order to fill the hall. And Mitchell's dinner brought...
Dear Charles (adapted by Alan Melville from a comedy by Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon and Frederick Jackson) brougt Tallulah Bankhead back to Broadway after five years-and itself back after ten. A 1944 flop called Slightly Scandalous, was adapted into a Paris hit, then (as Dear Charles) into a London...
...farm team. Willie had already made himself so popular in Minneapolis that the Giants' President Stoneham felt obliged to publish ads in the local Minneapolis newspapers to apologize for taking the young man away. But in his first days as a Giant, 20-year-old Willie was a flop. The rookie got only one lonesome hit in his first 26 times...