Word: jims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ohio. Widower David Harvey (William Holden) buys Bondwoman Rachel (Loretta Young) for $22, marries her, and brings her back to his remote cabin. He treats her like a servant and his little boy Davey treats her like dirt. When David's old friend, deep-woods Hunter Jim (Robert Mitchum), turns up, Rachel looks to him like fair game. He is indecently polite to her, openly courts her, even offers a better price for her than David paid in the first place. The wooing and wrangling all get remarkably open, and rather funny, until a pack of Shawnees interrupt, with...
First of all, the entire Freshman backfield is gone. Carl Bottenfield, injured in the Dartmouth game last season, has quit football on the advice of his Tulsa physician; fullback John West and halfback John White are scholastically ineligible to play this term; and Jim Lowell has decided to devote full attention to his studies...
...backfield, tailback Pete Petrillo, wingback Nick Athans, and quarterback Hugh Edmonds, all veterans of former Crimson Varsity and Jayvee elevens, are now back following leaves of absence. Other men, notably tailbacks Jim Noonan and Chuck Roche, quarterback Bill Henry, and tackle Doug Bradlee are looking more poised than they did last fall for Dick Harlow...
...result, only a few token T-formation plays have been grafted into the single-wing trunk. Jim Kenary, last year's passing whiz, who hasn't thrown from the T yet, was shifted from quarterback to tailback early last week...
...happens. Somebody walks up to you, strikes you on the back, and says "What's new?" This year, the answer is simple. Just mention the collection of blinking green traffic lights on the road to Wellesley, the Howard Johnson's on the Square, the television set in Jim's Place, the Three Brothers' Valateria's fancy tailor-newsstand-shoeshine establishment on Mt. Auburn Street, the refurbishing in Felix', the shoe and book sections at the Coop, or the Music Department's appointment of Randall Thompson. They're all brand new. And so are 200 Radcliffe Freshmen...