Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Glenn Davis, "Mr. Outside" on Blaik's great wartime teams and now, after resigning his commission,* a halfback for the Los Angeles Rams, added the crusher to the pileup. Said Halfback Davis: "In pro ball you meet a great team composed of 33 great players each week. Since the pros take the cream of the crop each year from the college ranks, it is only natural to find much better teams in pro ball...
After the failure of his Doodlebug, McDonnell went to work for the Glenn L. Martin Co., rose to be chief project engineer of land planes. In 1938 he decided to take a second try at manufacturing, gave himself exactly six months to raise his stake. It took him seven. He rented a second-story office in St. Louis, hired 20 engineers and went scouting for orders. In the first two years he got none, even though he won a $3,000 design-award from the Army and a $9,900 award from the Navy. His first actual order...
Tokyo Raider Jimmy Doolittle announced that he was ready to fight in Korea "if my services are required." Onetime West Point Halfback Glenn ("Mr. Outside") Davis, registering for the draft in Los Angeles, declared that he was "just like everybody else in this." General Electric's President Charles E. Wilson offered to take a top war production job in Washington if the Administration wanted...
...climb is encumbered with a heavy load of symbolism. The mountain itself symbolizes Life, and each member of the climbing party is tagged with a different nationality and a different motive for climbing, i.e., for living. The climbers: a warmhearted Italian girl (Valli), a war-weary American (Glenn Ford), an unreconstructed Nazi (Lloyd Bridges), a decadent Frenchman (Claude Rains), a philosophical Englishman (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), a dutiful Swiss (Oscar Homolka). Before the peak comes into sight, they revert pretty much to national typecasting, and the plot maneuvers them to illustrate some simple homilies (e.g., Love conquers all; United we stand...
...learned nothing else in all his years of wildcatting, Houston's Oilman Glenn McCarthy thought he knew one thing at least: how to keep his creditors happy. Last week he made them happy, all right-but only...