Word: ll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frank Leahy, as pessimistic as ever, opened Notre Dame's spring football practice. "We'll have the worst team Notre Dame has ever had," moaned the coach of the mighty Irish, undefeated for three years. "We'll lose seven games...
...wanted my bars or the bowl of pudding they shoved at me through the slot." But things would be different from now on for the actor who had been a $3,250-a-week idol of U.S. bobby-soxers: "I'm typed-a character. I guess I'll have to bear that all the rest of my life...
...went on to say that his landscape with girls in bathing suits had been "motivated by a mood of joyfulness." ¶Ben Shahn's 73 words were as incisive as his art: "I'll say this much: that art is my particular form of speech, and what ever I feel about men who sing and play guitars, I've said in the present picture...
...knew how. It's like hauling off a'-d punching the wall when you're frustrated. I'm gratified with the way he's getting along up to now. If he lives by society's conventions and laws for ten years I'll know we have accomplished something." Surgeon Meany is more optimistic about a lasting happy ending: "John was an apt case for psychological surgery. His troubles started between the ages of twelve and 15, when he passed the point of childhood anonymity, before which kids don't care much about...
...first philosopher to make truth pay, and like Jesus I went among the sinners by getting my articles printed in the Tory and Hearst press . . . William Morris died weeping for the poor, I'll die denouncing poverty . . . The girl Leigh [Actress Vivien Leigh] was round today [and] I thought of walking . . . with her to attract attention to myself . . . Was [Rilke] a poet? ... I am not certain whether Picasso is the name of the latest car or a horse . . . Burne-Jones was a great artist . . . [Joseph] Conrad [once] challenged me to a duel. Unfortunately, [H.G.] Wells...