Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difficult to conceive of 310-year-old 200-million-dollar Harvard as being in severe financial difficulty. As a matter of fact, she isn't. The University merely faces the same monetary difficulties that institutions and individuals throughout the country face in a period of rising prices, to be followed, perhaps and maybe, by a depression...
Like Jolson, Chevalier and other old-timers who have lately bounced back into public favor, portly (195 Ibs.) Colonel Stoopnagle, 50, isn't quite sure how it happened. "It's funny," he says; "they just started laughing again. And this time they laugh right out loud-in the studio. Kinda scared me at first. I remember when they'd pull a long face at my act, and wouldn't double-take until they were at least three blocks away from the station...
...jack-nimble is what they are -and as well-drilled as the Rockettes. Michigan's sleight-of-hand repertory is a baffling assortment of double reverses, buck-reverse laterals, crisscrosses, quick-hits and spins from seven different formations. Sometimes, watching from the side lines, even Coach Crisler isn't sure which Michigan man has the ball. Michigan plays one team on offense, one on defense...
They talk about the future: Should Bob play pro football? Crisler thinks he shouldn't; Ann isn't sure. "All I know about football," she says, "is that one team goes this way and the other goes that...
...grab in my fist and make look like a football. The Editor doesn't forget anything. He finds me a tie that leaves me as flat as warm beer, and then insists I put a ruptured duck in the lapel of the suit, and find a shirt that isn't button-down. The hat I wear looks like something out of the Front Page...