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Orange Bowl. In Miami, Florida's florid answer to the Rose Bowl drew only 12,000 who were astonished at Catholic University players' reluctance to pose with a reception committee of blondes, were further astonished when the same players scored three touchdowns to top Mississippi's fourth quarter rally...
Captain Blood (Warner) seems to be Warner's answer to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Mutiny on the Bounty. Whatever the literary merits of Rafael Sabatini's florid novels, they make excellent cinema fare when served with the crispness and gusto of Captain Blood...
...Texas, Southwest Conference teams have developed a football style of their own. It is florid and spectacular, a gambler's style, based on passes and pure speed. Last month experts thought Rice, Conference champion last year, with an available first string weighing one long ton (2,240 lb.), had the strongest concentration of football manpower in the U. S. Then Southern Methodist became high-scoring team of the country with 148 points to 6 against four opponents. In the Dallas game that seemed likely to mean at least a Conference title to the winner last week...
...florid, square-jawed Irishman, easygoing, stubborn, hot-tempered and prodigiously energetic, Cochrane's success as a manager is as hard to analyze as it is apparent. He makes no parade of the thinking processes which it takes to run a big-league ball club but if he is never seen like Connie Mack waving intricately scrawled scorecards, it does not mean that the moves of a baseball game are not as definitely outlined in his mind as those of a chess game in the brain of a blindfolded expert. His players like him because he discusses plans, theories...
...brusque Arkansan named M. Frank Yount and a florid West Virginian named Thomas Peter Lee started Yount-Lee Oil Co. at Beaumont, Tex. On an original capital of $50,000 they spent 13 years drilling in Texas and Louisiana without spectacular success. Then suddenly, in 1926, Yount-Lee made national news by rediscovering the famed Spindletop Field near Beaumont. Everybody supposed that Spindletop had been drained dry. Yount-Lee opened a rich new producing sand by drilling deeper than anybody had had the courage to go before. Later the company discovered and developed the High Island Field in Galveston County...