Word: got
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Sunday's victory, all he had to worry about (besides another game with the New York Giants) was next fortnight's championship playoff with the league's Western Division winners. Greasy was reasonably self-assured. Said he: "I haven't got 30 players. I have 30 coaches. Why not? They're smart fellows; they all went to college...
After the cheers died and Earl Teater rode out to accept the blue ribbon for Dodge Stables, the judges got together to phrase their official comment. One wanted to say simply that Wing Commander was far ahead of the field. Said another judge: "I don't think we want to say that. We don't want to hurt anybody's feelings. Let's just say there's not another stud like him showing today...
...Communist propaganda. Last week N.Y.U. students forgot to disagree about it long enough to denounce removal of the mural as "a direct attack and violation of student rights and the usurpation of the powers of student government." As a matter of principle they wanted the mural sketch back; they got it, together with a promise that Collins would be permitted to finish...
Bitter Medicine. Pert, Missouri-born Norma Browning had been putting things to the test-and turning the results into first-rate copy-ever since she got her master's degree in English from Radcliffe College in 1938. Shortly after, she married Photographer Russell Ogg and they settled down to live in a Manhattan slum on his $15-a-week salary. Norma quickly turned the hardship into $1,100 from the Reader's Digest for a sprightly piece on We Live in the Slums. She joined the Trib as a feature writer in 1944. But not till two years...
...brief visit to the U.S., Britain's Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery (see INTERNATIONAL) got his first whiff of the ubiquitous U.S. columnists. As Montgomery sailed from Manhattan last week, ship newsmen asked him about Columnist Drew Pearson's story on Monty's conferences with U.S. Chief of Staff Omar Bradley and others. Pearson reported that Monty had urged Bradley to rearm Germany. Up went Monty's eyebrows. "What in the world is a columnist?" he asked in bewilderment. "How did he know that? ... I didn't know this chap was in the room...