Word: impromptu
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...week long, West Point's Coach Earl ("Red") Blaik had been singing the blues. To hear him tell it, Penn State's Nittany Lions would gobble his hamstrung team in a single gulp. His backfield, if he could field one at all. would be an impromptu joke. Joe Cygler, Army's fleet left halfback, was out for the season with a snapped ankle. Dick Murtland, another halfback, was laid up with a charley horse. Bob Kyasky, the fastest back of all, was nursing a bad knee. Mike Zeigler had run afoul of Army discipline and was finished...
...friends who beat a track to his door (among the week's visitors: Interior Secretary Douglas McKay, Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell, Senator Arthur Watkins, General Omar Bradley). Later, on the golf course at Cherry Hills Club, he swapped pleasantries with Dizzy Dean, and gave Bob Hope an impromptu lesson on how to drive a golf ball. After the comedian had shanked a ball off the fairway, Ike grabbed his driver and cleanly smacked a drive 225 yards down the center, then gave Hope a wordless, that's-how-it's-done look...
...impromptu phrases at his news conference last week, the President of the U.S. gave a fresh meaning to the nation's foreign policy. Dwight Eisenhower was talking about his plan for an atom-powered merchant ship to dramatize his "atoms for peace" program. With intense feeling, he exclaimed: "If we are going to win this war for peace, let's stop talking about 'cold war.' We are trying to wage a war for peace...
Arriving in New York to accept a public-service award from the Global News Syndicate, hatless Vice President Richard Nixon displayed the sure political instincts of a seasoned campaigner, in an impromptu 1-hour-and-45-minute tour of Harlem. With an entourage of Global News executives, city detectives and secret service men, Nixon drove to 125th Street and set out on foot, stopping to ask several children about the Dodgers' winning streak, whirled in and out of the offices of the weekly New York Age Defender, paused in the next block to chat with a sidewalk watermelon vendor...
...sound now like an entire circus, again like the string section of a symphony orchestra. Harry Belafonte, singing blues, calypso and spirituals, turned out to be a topnotch TV personality. Best of all were witty Dancers Marge and Gower Champion, who can make their sophisticated routines look joyously impromptu. All in all, 3 for Tonight proved that skill and imagination can be more fun than a lot of expensive scenery...