Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator Beauregard Claghorn (Kenny Delmar), a julep-slupping burlesque of a Southern politico, a latter-day Civil Warrior with a mouth as big as the Mississippi's and a brain the size of a hominy grit. The Senator's development has been arrested in an artistic sense, too. After only six minutes on the air (four programs), his "That's a joke, son!" and "That is" were national bywords. Allen, who intended the Senator to have a far larger comic vocabulary, has been forced to give the public what it wants: plenty of nothing...
...unlimited class, mammoth Dave Gill mauled shorter, spirited Johnny Watkins for six minutes, but the latter's sharper, stinging punches won him the decision. Al Petite took 125-pound laurels on default from Phil O'Keefe...
...check into the dimmer past, however, reveals that Sam was also something of a scholar and athlete during his undergraduate days. While pulling down Ed.M. and A.M. degrees in history, he played Freshman soccer, basketball, and baseball, following in the latter two sports with three Varsity seasons apiece, while serving also for one year on the Jayvee football squad and for two more on the Varsity. The high point of this athletic career was reached on the basketball court, where, Sam admits, lies his greatest love. In 1921 he captained the Freshman quintet, and in his Senior year he held...
...final action among the Crimson roster was Gorman. Three of the locals were nosed out by one position on Saturday: Chuck Hoelzer in the 200-yard breast stroke, Forbes Norris in the 440 free. and Bob Aaron in the 3-meter dive. Tom Drohan took eighth in this latter event, right behind his co-entrant...
Well, the psychiatrist hemmed, "I withdraw the latter part of my definition...