Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that some heavy tackle now to the squad "will pan out later" or some tolerable looking passer "will complete a few in actual combat." This year the optimism is not strained. While leveller heads will insist that every team in the country is loaded, that the best bet on nine out of any tea games this fall will be even money, and that the Crimson in particular may, well be outweighed by every eleven it faces, even Western Maryland and Dartmouth, the average follower of Dick Harlow's 1947 forces is bound to succumb to a feeling of exuberant hope...
...thing, there are many familiar faces on Soldiers Field from three Successful Crimson teams of last year. A Varsity which won seven of nine games has returned 20 lettermen, including the outstanding halfback threat Thomas (Chip) Gannon, who runs best to port and hurls passes lefthanded. There is six-foot-three 200-pound plunging fullback Captain Vince Moraveo who averaged six yards a line buck in one contest last fall when a three-yard plunge for a touchdown brought his average down, and whose virtual loss from the Yale game with an Injury was a mortal blow to the team...
...Symphony No. 1 in D (Cleveland Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf conducting; Columbia, 10 sides). Small wonder Brahms wrote to his publishers: "I took much pleasure in the works of Dvořák of Prague." This symphony, actually the sixth of Dvořák's nine, is largely a Brahmsian echo. Performance: good...
...first fling at designing was as a child in Atlanta; she made clothes for her dolls. Her mother believed in girls' marrying young, so Sophie obliged her by marrying at 19, went to live with her husband in Philadelphia, where he was in the leather business. For nine years she lived the superficially quiet life of a well-to-do housewife, spent her spare time designing clothes for amateur theatricals. Then she was divorced ("it was all very friendly-we just decided we didn't get on together...
...salon prospered, Sophie put out a cheaper ready-to-wear line-the Sophie Originals-which are sold in nine specialty shops around the country for as little as $89. A month ago, Sophie-expanded further. She opened a branch of her salon in Saks's Hollywood store, to the enthusiastic squeals of screen queens and producers' wives. In the first week, the new salon grossed $49,000, much more than Sophie had expected. Hedy Lamarr ordered seven Sophie numbers. Darryl Zanuck told her confidentially: "Our stars simply refuse to wear those outlandish new things." Hollywood had one complaint...