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Boston explains it by saying that last year's Jayvees were something of a freak. "We had a lot of veterans and Seniors who for various reasons didn't get on the Varsity squad. When they got on the Jayvees they just clicked. They wanted to win, so they...

Author: By Robert Carswell, | Title: Jayvees Always Fight For Boston | 10/18/1947 | See Source »

...emphasis is on the pigskin and the Jayvees won their first game for 1947 on Saturday, Elijah the prophet had plenty to say about the future but Elijah Boston, in the tradition of a football coach does not. "We may win some, but last year was a freak," he says...

Author: By Robert Carswell, | Title: Jayvees Always Fight For Boston | 10/18/1947 | See Source »

...kettle; in any case, unsure pacing and thin delivery cause a lot of the wickedest haymakers against radio and money-love to land rather light. For all Actor Greenstreet's enthusiasm, Soap Sponsor Evans is so fantastically brutal that most people may think him a freak, rather than a personification of one kind of big-business tyranny. And Adolphe Menjou, expert as he is as the head of the agency, appears more interested in getting laughs than in illustrating what a man can do to himself for the sake of money. Some of the picture's trimmings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Jul. 21, 1947 | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...freak plays accounted for the first two scores. Tellefson walked Captain Jack Forte and Billy Fitz, and then threw four balls to Walt Coulson. As Coulson trotted toward first, catcher Bill Swiacki made the customary throw to third base. The heave sailed into left field, and Forte scored. Then, with one out, Len Lunder lofted a foul fly to left field which Bruce Gehrke unaccountably caught, allowing Fitz to score easily after the putout...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Varsity Nine Trips Columbia 13-6, for Second League Win | 4/24/1947 | See Source »

...Questions. Jordana replaced Franco's brother-in-law, Serrano Suñer, a fanatical Falangist, a few weeks before the North African invasion. It was a happy freak of fortune, says Sir Samuel, that Franco chose this time to oust his ambitious brother-in-law. Had Serrano Suñer remained in office, the invasion might have miscarried. The Gibraltar airfield could have been crippled "in less than a half hour." Gibraltar bay, which had been filling with ships for days, was almost as vulnerable. Jordana was "pro-Ally to the core," discreetly looked the other way, asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fat, Smug, Complacent | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

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