Word: hanks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professional. At Chicago, addicts packed the Madison Street Armory to watch 14 teams compete for the title of "world's professional champion." Enticing more & more college stars each year-including Stanford's Hank Luisetti, Syracuse's Wilmeth Sidat-Singh, Dartmouth's Bob MacLeod-professional basketball is staging a comeback after a decade of eclipse by brilliant college teams...
...framework of the story has evident possibilities, but they are distorted badly. American born Mrs. Rochester, with a past of glamorous marriages to English nobility, invades America on a lecture tour. When her cousin, newspaperman "Hank" Rogers, comes to interview her, the outcome is a bad case of romance, spiritual conversion, and propaganda jitters. Convinced that her charming presence is a menace to American neutrality, Rogers tries to make her give up lecturing, and instead almost becomes her next husband. His affair is unconvincing, and the audience is never sure whether Mr. Sheean has decided to write about romance...
...boys from New Haven eligible to swim the 200 breaststroke are Hank Klepinger, John, Meyer, Thursty TwiggSmith, Ed Gesner, and Paul Metcalf. They are all favored to finish ahead of the Crimson's Jack Waldron and Rog Willcox, but Waldron may come through with a second...
...baseball history ($20,000 more than the previous top, given Rick Ferrell by the Browns in 1929), but it made Rookie McCoy the highest-paid baseballer of the year. His 1940 income of $55,000 will be more than the salary of Joe Di Maggio, Jimmy Foxx or Hank Greenberg...
...only more so), murders his stepfather. But the Viking Hamlet was big, blond and extrovert. He did not see his father's ghost. He killed not only his stepfather, but all his stepfather's courtiers. He married a guileless English princess, abandoned her for a bloodthirsty, hawknosed hank of hair, thereby starting a sequence of murders which ends only when his Amazon has his head chopped...