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...Orleans, Rice, considered the best in the Southwest Conference, faced Louisiana State University, rated the pick of the Southeastern Conference. L.S.U. won, 21 to 14. The margin of difference was principally L.S.U.'s Yelberton Abraham Tittle Jr., one of the nimblest and headiest T-formation quarterbacks in the business. Elsewhere in the South, two perennial powerhouses-Tennessee (to Georgia Tech, 27-0) and Alabama (to Tulane, 21-20)-lost their first games of the season...
Remember Mama, Show Boat, Annie Get Your Gun. Highest acting honors were foreign and male: Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson for their Old Vic Oedipus and Falstaff. Nimblest female performance: Betty Field in Dream Girl...
...Nancy Hamilton; produced by Stanley Gilkey and Barbara Payne) bobbed up, after a series of slithering musicomedies, as the season's first revue. But the change of pattern provided little change of luck. Despite having Dancer Ray Bolger (On Your Toes, By Jupiter), a star with about the nimblest feet in show business, Three to Make Ready slithers too. Its music is tepid and tacky. Most of its skits are not funny at all and the rest are not funny enough...
Actually Vultee and Stinson were already cousins, controlled by the same man-round-faced, 42-year-old Victor Emanuel, one of the nimblest quarterbacks on the financial football field. Both were units - Vultee 60% owned, Stinson 100% - in his tangled Aviation Corp. holding company system - Aviation & Transportation Corp., Aviation Manufacturing Corp., etc. (TIME, Feb. 19). News men, noting the low price Vultee paid, therefore looked for deeper meanings in the Vultee-Stinson deal...
Last week U. S. criminal statutes tangled the feet of one of the nimblest and boldest industrial quarterbacks who ever lived. Indicted on 19 counts for fraud and conspiracy was fat, ill Howard Hopson, who for 18 years called the plays for flashy Associated Gas & Electric System (now in the bankruptcy courts). Among those indicted with Hoppy were three running mates: his banker-leg man Fred Burroughs, his lawyers, Charles Travis and Garrett Brownback...