Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Free trips to four enemy football camps as well as preferred tickets on the fifty yard line to all Varsity games and major and minor football letters will be the fruits of hard work behind the scenes for these who lead the field. The maintenance of Harvard's managing reputation, as chosen by life Magazine in the fall of 1939 to lead the country, will be the goal of these aspirants...
Another who faces into the fog is Sportswriter Charles P. Ward of the Detroit Free Press. "The truth is," he says, "that they [the club owners] are worried and uncertain about the future. The calling off of the annual meeting of the minor leagues at the Government's suggestion is taken as an indication of the trend. The minor-league convention was one of the most important in baseball, for that is the session at which most big trades are made. The big-league session may be next...
...Major and the Minor (Paramount) introduces a pigtailed, devastatingly personable Ginger Rogers to a military school full of precociously amatory cadets. With all due respect to Brother Rat (TIME, Nov. 7, 1938), The Major and the Minor is possibly the best fun ever gotten out of such an institution. Ginger Rogers turns in the prettiest piece of work she has done...
...real fun in The Major and the Minor are Ginger's relations with the lovelorn cadets. Each of them tries to kiss her by showing her "how they took Sedan," then offering to show her how Paris fell. Cadet Wigton (Raymond Roe) takes Sedan with a fuzzily rapacious kiss, fails to take Paris. The other boys superimpose a line of their own on this basic strategy. Cadet Osborne (Frankie Thomas Jr.) turns out to be Masher Benchley's boy. Like his old man, he uses the Park Avenue technique, tells her that "you and I could make beautiful...
...Minor Sports...