Word: morgan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CRIMSON is expected to field a squad knee-deep at every position and starring such gridiron greats as Crazy-legs Morgan, Crazy-legs Friedman, Crazylegs Bailey and Robert S. Leventhal...
...TIME'S bet on Comic Morgan was across the board-to win, place, or show...
...possible that TIME placed a ''WIN" bet on a Flash-in-the-Pan? Henry Morgan [TIME, Sept. 29] was slightly better than terrific last year-but-oh, Brother-how his script could use a fumigation this year...
...story is a modern contest between good & evil, with Morgan acting as a kind of celestial scorekeeper. The chief character is a retired judge who is writing a book about Athens during its best days. A saintly Mr. Chips wrestling with the devil instead of the Lower Form, he prays nightly for help in his work ("God, make me fit to write"), seeks, in his historical research, a "timeless common humanity" to unite Greek ideals with the wearier 20th Century. What he finds, at first, is a modern tempter with a fat bankroll and a skinny conscience, who tries...
...Author Morgan's villain buys men's integrity along with their learning, then tries to destroy their creativeness. "The vast ambition of his plan [was] to guide the development of men's minds, to collectivize art and scholarship, to harness them to industry." Like Faust, the judge sells his soul, later redeems it by shucking off his possessions and leading an ascetic life. To prove his point-that individual integrity can defeat collective evil-Author Morgan shamelessly stacks the cards on the side of the Good, the True, and the Beautiful...