Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weaknesses: "You vary your shots with the goalie-high for McNeil of Montreal, on the ice against Henry of Boston." But Howe's main scoring assets are a pair of powerful wrists (strengthened by summertime golf and softball), an ability to shoot from either side, and the shifty knack of disguising his intentions. Charging into an opponent's zone, Howe has been known to ward off a defenseman with one elbow and still get off a blasting scoring shot, one-handed, past an astonished goalie. Measured speed of Howe's hottest shots: 120m.p.h...
Although playing at sports is far more valuable to an education than watching them, College physical requirements stop after a year of physical training, the ability to swim, and the knack of sliding down a rope. But even if athletic participation is essential to education, when inflation forces a choice between it and a greater tuition rise, athletics should take a back seat for the duration. A top notch sports plan means little to the student who must work longer hours to make up for his increased tuition package. It means even less when he knows part of the money...
...road to ruin in the publishing business is strewn with unsold copies of good books and the bones of the publishing-house editors who picked them. Nowadays, the most successful editors are often nonliterary chaps with a well-developed knack for betting right on the question: What will the most readers buy? For early 1953, the experts are betting on historical novels...
Personality: Cagey before committing himself on anything, no backslapper, but easy and humorous when with friends. Has an intuitive knack for picking good subordinates, but has been called thin-skinned to criticism. A Presbyterian, and a great joiner (American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Military Order of the Purple Heart, Shriners, Knights Templar, Elks, Eagles, Kiwanis, the Capital Card Club, etc.). Loves riding and campaigning on horseback; in parades, he exchanges his conservative suits for a white, gaily embroidered cowboy costume and ten-gallon hat. Married to Mabel Hill, whom he met in his college days; two daughters, both married...
...Commandos), and a seemingly endless chain-ten so far-of Jungle Jim pictures. Jungle Sam never spends more than half a million dollars on a film, and in 21 years of producing he has not made a single picture that lost money. "I got a kind of feeling, a knack," he claims. "Knock on wood-I've never been wrong...