Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GHOST ON HORSEBACK, THE INCREDIBLE ATATURK (408 pp.)-Ray Brock-Duell Sloan & Pearce...
...fullback, taught them how in their first game. After that, Ohio State, Oregon and U.S.C. drove the lesson home. Larson alone was not enough. Last week California lost another to U.C.L.A., 27-6. ¶ Illinois was an odds-on favorite to top the Big Ten. Red Grange's ghost, a spindle-shanked Negro halfback from South Carolina named J. C. (for nothing) Caroline was going to run the Illini right into the Rose Bowl. They lost four straight before J.C. got untracked. ¶ Wisconsin had Alan ("The Horse") Ameche, a standout All-America fullback. But The Horse...
...turns into semifiction. After an early setback, for instance, Ataturk is made to muse: "Yes, Pasha, and like that monstrous egg in the rhyme for children, you had a great fall." In the end, Author Brock's purplish flights-the old roughneck gallops off as a kind of ghost rider in the sky-obscure the black-and-white facts of Ataturk's life, which was more fantastic than any biographer's invention...
...colleges as a result complain of "ghost" applications --from students not intending to attend, but who are seeking only an insurance acceptance. Still, it seems only fair that the colleges themselves should assume responsibility for their own problem. A College Board Entrance Examination official has likened the situation to a marriage. While both parties may be willing, someone has got to propose." The colleges, since they are not bashful in their courting, should at least continue so make the initial advances...
...drawn and attracting, and the insurance advertisement parody on the inside cover is probably the funniest contribution. From there, however, the issue trails into a succession of three attempts at movie satire. The attempts satirize only themselves. The other prose rises above this level but once. Fletcher's The Ghost is somewhat ill-conceived, but nonetheless well-executed, and his style precurses a Renaissance in 'Poon wit. Any such revival, however, is stifled by the inclusion of a piece titled As Maine Goes. Evidently the editors realized that it was poor and attempted to discourage readers with a first sentence...