Word: havener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard, with a year under Valpey since it last played Columbia, has an edge as far as experience and gridiron poise go. Columbia's defensive platoon includes five sophomores who could be fooled every so often. And there are a like number of sophs in the offensive group who haven't been playing together for very long and who probably haven't come up against a hard-charging line...
...cigarette" that generally haunt the U.S. Navy elsewhere in foreign ports. "What's the matter with these fellows, anyhow?" asked Chief Warrant Officer Milburn ("Duke") Holmes of North Platte, Neb. "They won't accept our cigarettes and want us to smoke their smelly black tobacco. I haven't been able to pay for a glass of sherry in town-but they sure look as if they could use some extra money or some food...
Franco was still beaming next day as he gave Abdullah a spectacular public embrace. Madrid declared a national holiday the better to welcome the royal guest. One peevish cobbler grumbled: "Haven't we enough saints' days which keep us from working without a Moorish king thrown in as well...
Said bustling Homer Hargrave, chairman of the Chicago Exchange: "We haven't kept pace in the securities market with the growth and industrialization of the Midwest. We will now have a horse to ride that can keep pace." The exchange opens formally Sept. 15 but will not be ready to deal in stocks for at least two more months...
...with one eye on the hot-weather box-office and the other on the football season. Its five gridiron heroes, headed by a gangling quarterback (Donald O'Connor) are ex-G.I. students who are also henpecked husbands and harassed fathers. Their five wives, captained by Gloria De Haven, are all psychology students determined to reduce their husbands to baby burpers and dishwashers. The obvious problem, in due course obviously solved: Who is going to carry the ball for the glory of dear old Granger...