Word: nicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strains which have been carefully inbred for generations. This offspring inherits all the favorable characteristics of his purebred ancestors as well as a mysterious extra something called "hybrid vigor": a phenomenal capacity for growth and performance. Actually, the breeder may run through hundreds of combinations before he hits a "nick"-trade slang for a good hybrid. Wallace's nick didn't come until 1942, after six years of tedious experimentations. In one year, he had to throw out 34,000 chicks from a carefully bred flock of 36,000 birds. Many of the rejects were weird freaks spawned...
...first string backfield of Bill Henry, Jim Noonan or Charlie Roche, John White, and Paul Shafer remained unchanged. Carl Bottenfield who has a broken bone in his right hand, worked with Charlie Walsh, Carrol Lowenstein, and Nick Athens but saw considerable action with the number one combination. Wingback Bill Hoaley did some particularly impressive running...
...jayvees, using a Columbia-style offense, tested the patched-up varsity defense. Bottenfield replaced Roche as defensive left halfback and Shafer spelled Bob Di Blasio, who wasn't at practice, at right half. After a while Nick Athans and Walsh came on and Lowenstein went in at safety for Healey...
...weeks after Weston landed his postwar job at TIME, Nick Samstag, TIME'S Promotion Director, found out that he was a qualified expert in this study of the shields, crests and supporters that accompanied the patents of nobility won by outstanding men of yesterday for outstanding deeds. After talking to him, Samstag got the idea that the ancient science of heraldry could be used to symbolize the many groups that make up the readership of TIME. The result, after much work by the Promotion Department, was a 28-page, 19 by 24 inch book titled The TIME Audience...
Besides cheery sex gags, Blackouts offers some highly special specialties-boy pianists, aged chorines and one-legged hoofers. There are also oldtimers like Composer Shelton (Some of These Days) Brooks and Guitarist Nick (Tip Toe Through the Tulips) Lucas; but they don't make things seem like old times. New, and nice to look at, is blonde Pat Williams, as the show's leading lady. Blackouts has its remarkable turns -a female contortionist, a set of trained lovebirds; but in the great days of vaudeville, they would merely have opened the show...