Word: harlows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supplied free by the studios. In the years before censorship, cinemag pages were triple-dipped in juicy Hollywood scandal. But in the early '303 the tattlers were forcibly tongue-tied; the studios threatened to deny them access to the stars. Says one publisher: "We were licked. Without Jean Harlow stories alone, we'd have lost 10% of our circulation...
...principal event of the dinner was to be the "Swede" Nelson sportsmanship award to place kicker Everett Dorr of Boston University, with another presentation scheduled for Harlow. When the time came, Dick rose slowly to receive his gift, a nautically mounted clock and barometer bearing the inscribed affections of the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston. Then he moved to the microphone, uncertainly it seemed, and quietly he began to speak...
...thanked the club. To Valpey he spoke of the fairness of local sportswriters and his friendship for them. Slowly the old Harlow fire returned. He praised the fine relationships he had always had with the press and with Harvard alumni and he hoped they would continue for Valpey. By the end of his speech his voice was tremendous, although one of the older members whispered, "You should have heard him 12 years...
...next fall, he merely shrugged in indecision. But Al McCoy, once Harlow's aide and now talent scout for the professional Boston Yanks, said at once that Dick will scout for some Ivy League team. McCoy sounded sure of himself, and the strongest indication is that Harlow will go to Columbia because of his great friendship for Lou Little. With his former assistants Margarita and Jacunski at Yale, this presence at Columbia would mean that at least two of Art Valpey's '48 rivals would have the inside word on Crimson personnel...
Speaking of Yale, Harlow said, "I know everything about Herman Hickman and he's a good coach." McCoy added, "Hickman may look easy going, but remember he played at Tennessee where they like them rough, tough, and nasty." As for the new football rules making interior linemen eligible as pass receivers Harlow whistled and said, "You know, this changes the whole game of football. This makes a man to man defense absolutely impossible...