Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arbiters of culture now are Mrs. Leonora Wood Armsby, who runs Pierre Monteux's San Francisco Symphony, Mrs. Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, who campaigns for sanity in art. Faces come & go around the Palace Hotel bar, John's Rendezvous, Golden Gate Park: "Jake" Ehrlich, attorney for the underworld; Bill Hurley, Third Street saloonkeeper who ran for mayor with the slogan: "Get up early and vote for Hurley; stay in bed and be misled." Henry Kaiser rides importantly back & forth over crowded Bay Bridge to Oakland...
...behind New York University's late-blooming Violets was modest, blunt, hokum-hating Coach Howard ("Jake") Cann. Scornful of modern mastermind "systems," for 22 years he has coached the same kind of ball he played a quarter-century ago, when he was one of basketball's greats. He seldom diagrams a play. Once, pressed to explain his "N.Y.U. system," he deadpanned: "Well, we throw the ball around a lot and do our best to put it in the basket." His real formula: hold the score down, wear 'em out, then pour...
Such tactics result in many photo-finishes, and Jake Cann, never resigned to them, habitually agonizes on the bench. Says he: "My greatest thrill comes when I hear the final whistle." This year, the thrills have been pleasant: 17 out of 18 final whistles have found N.Y.U. ahead...
...Jake's 1946 team has been largely without honor in its own town. Their team play is intermittently sloppy, and occasionally they go in for grandstanding. Madison Square Garden crowds and sportswriters frequently hoot them. But Jake's second-half wonders, led by eagle-eyed Sid Tanenbaum, go on throwing the ball around a lot, and winning games...
...wanted. At last, he just seemed to fade away-and so did John Brown, the spineless misfit who drank too much, walked with a cringing stoop and wanted the girl he loved to be his mother rather than his wife. Into John Brown's shoes stepped self-confident Jake Braunowitz, who no longer hated his family, because he understood their desperate struggle, who no longer hated the world, because he believed that he had something to contribute...