Word: lew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to the live tackling in the passing scrimmage, contact work was provided by sending ballcarriers, including linemen, against stationary tacklers. Guard Lew Gordon was banged-up in this drill, but the full extent of his injuries is not yet known...
...third team has been composed of ends George Emmons and Hank Rate; tackles Nick Culolias and Dick Heidtmann; guards, John Jennings and Lew Gordon; alternating centers Bainy Frothingham and O'Brien; quarterbacks Bill Kierstead and Hardy Cox; halfbacks Paul Campbell and Bob Ray; fullback Jerry Blitz...
...third team includes six sophomores and a single letterman. It has been lining up with George Emmons and Hank Rate, ends; Nick Culolias and Dick Heidtmann, tackles; John Jennings and Lew Gordon, guards; and O'Brien, center. Bainy Frothingham has been alternating with O'Brien. Bill Kierstead and Hardy Cox change off at quarterback with Bob Ray and Phil. Campbell as the halves and Blitz at fullback...
...Capture (RKO Radio) is a western with psychiatric overtones, a bright enough idea that didn't quite work out. Lew Ayres, an American oilman in Mexico, goes out after a payroll bandit and shoots the wrong man. Remorse, complicated by some amazing coincidences, leads him to break his engagement, quit his job, marry the murdered man's widow (Teresa Wright) and set out to clear the dead man's name. He is soon involved in a second murder, causes a suicide, and gets mixed up in a somewhat pointless chase sequence, in which he finally manages...
Written and produced by Novelist Niven (Duel in the Sun) Busch, The Capture is told in a series of flashbacks that explain too much about Lew Ayres and not enough about the rest of the cast. Despite some good photography, a stark Mexican background, and a fine feeling for place and incident, the indecisive plot suffers from the same fuzziness that clutters up the dialogue...