Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...makes most of his points on a leaping, twisting shot from a pivot post. Ambidextrous, he has a knack of changing the ball from one hand to another at the last second and getting it in the clear without a bit of lost motion. His height (6 ft. 5 in.), long arms and springy legs all help. But his prize asset is a big, soft hand with long fingers that enables him to shoot a "soft" ball; it seems to float lazily from his fingertips, either drops clean or drowzes tantalizingly on the basket rim, then falls...
Morgenthaler could never be mistaken for Nijinsky on a hardwood floor, but he makes baskets, and his cohorts seem to have learned the knack of how to feed him in the pivot position. Neither Barclay nor George Hauptfuhrer, who will probably play Morgenthaler if the Varsity uses a man-to-man defense, would comment yesterday on the Harvard strategy of guarding the Huge Man, but defensive maneuvers have been worked out in practice sessions...
...musician, Bill Karzas' success is partially due to his knack for picking bands people like. Says he : "I know good music when I hear it, just the same as I can't cook but I know good food when...
...Holy Cross lineup tonight will read like this: Chuch Bollinger--18 year old pivot man, stands 6.6 despite crew haircut, is usually either very very hot or very very cold; George Kaftan-18 year old Sophomore and big factor in last year's victory over the Crimson, has knack for being in the right place at the right time; Dermott O'Connell, another 18 year older, perhaps the least spectacular memeber of the starting five; Ken Haggerty--Navy vetrean and co-captain of team, playmaking guard and set shot artist, steadying influence; Joe Mullaney--22 year old ex-pilot...
...called Palm Beach and asked Novelist MacKinlay Kantor to dash off a story treatment. Kantor went right to work, but before he was through, his "treatment" had blossomed into a 268-page novel in free verse (Glory for Me, a Literary Guild dividend selection). Playwright Robert E. Sherwood, whose knack for smooth, talkable prose has won him three Pulitzer Prizes and a place in the history books as the writer of Franklin Roosevelt's war speeches, was hired to do the script. The story was one which appealed to able Director William Wyler (Wuthering Heights, The Memphis Belle...