Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strictly in the Groove. A sharecropper's son, Jimmie Davis always had the knack of strumming his way toward the top. In the old days he held minor offices, taught school (tutoring yodeling on the side), even made B pictures in Hollywood (Strictly in the Groove, Frontier Fury). His four years as Governor were noted principally for a $38 million surplus (which Successor Earl Long soon spent). But in his runoff race against Morrison, front runner in the first primary (TIME, Dec. 14), Davis dropped his "peace and harmony" theme, picked up the cause of segregation, and ran hard...
...from the end, both teams have been playing the kind of hockey that is normally associated with them. The Bruins returned to mediocrity by losing to an undistinguished Army team, 5 to 1, after bowing, 5 to 0, to Princeton; and the Crimson seems to have picked up the knack of defensive hockey with three impressive wins...