Word: hanks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hank Iba, basketball coach of the Oklahoma Aggies, is much too sly to be stampeded into using newfangled methods. When he takes his players to the big city, they play horse& -buggy basketball. There is no furious running or frantic shooting. Calmly and deliberately, they throttle the game down ; the Aggies seldom score many points and allow the opposition even fewer. Other coaches call it "slow death...
...Hank Iba insists that "firewagon basketball is only for a crew of firemen." He keeps hammering "ball control" into his players until they dream about it. Iba's first rule: "Never shoot unless you have the percentages with you that the shot will be good." There is only one ball in a basketball game, he likes to say, and as long as you have it the other team can't score...
Champ Ted Norris took over where German left off, lapping his opponents in the quarter mile freestyle to lead teammate Hank Arthur home in 5:04.1, an excellent time considering the lack of competition...
Angel in the Wings (music & lyrics by Carl Sigman & Robert Hilliard; produced by Marjorie & Sherman Ewing) is that rare thing these days, an intimate revue; and that even rarer thing, a gay one. Injecting the gaiety are: 1) Grace Hartman, 2) Paul Hartman, 3) Hank Ladd. The three of them are the whole show; or rather, and most unfortunately, they aren't. Included also are some pretty dreary gags and skits, and some fairly routine songs & dances...
Introducing the acts, running down the actors and confiding in the audience, radio-bred Hank Ladd chatters on & on in easy style and with admirable timing. Very often it takes all his personality to get away with his persiflage. But on he goes again, and even bursts into a song about how he left his girl on one-but which one?-of the Thousand Islands...