Word: nods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quarterback Jim Kenary, whose accurate passing has highlighted the afternoon drill periods, and guard Dick Guidera are the only men so far to receive the nod for definite starting berths...
...fights on the squad has developed over the wingback slot. Early-bird prognosticators picked 1943 captain-elect Cleo O'Donnell for the job, which he ran from in 1942 before he want into the Marines, but it doesn't look as though Cleo is going to get the starting nod from Harlow. Until a week ago it looked like a battle royal between O'Donnell and newcomer Tommy Gannon, who had never played college football before--with Gannon holding a slight edge. Then Leo Flynn muddied the situation even further by blazing a flashy trail across the practice fields...
...fullback powerful Vince Moravec has gotten the nod over last year's regular, Bobby Cowen . . . Moravec played in 1945 for the New London Sub Base eleven, showed his stuff too well in the Stadium for the Crimson comfort as the visitor's triumphed 18-7. Moravec is six feet, three inches tall and weighs a cool 200 pounds in his stocking feet. Cowen, who was elected honorary captain of last year's gridmen at the end of the season, is just on his way back from that omni-present sick list...
...managers got word from Governor Tom in Albany. His man for the Senate now was 50-year-old Irving M. Ives, a veteran of World War I, majority leader of the State Assembly, dean of Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Dewey's nod to Ives put a fatal chill on the boosters for Major General "Wild Bill" Donovan (TIME, Sept. 2). A respected legislator, with a good record on labor relations, Mr. Ives grasped his opportunity gratefully...
...days later a more damaging blow came from Albany, was promptly reported by New York political writers: the Republican State Executive Committee had given the nod for the nomination to Lieut. General Hugh A. Drum. Longtime (44 years) professional soldier, Hugh Drum was head of the U.S. First Army until he retired in 1943, is now commander of New York's State Guard, had accompanied Tom Dewey on his 1944 campaign trip. The word from Albany seemed, in effect, to sew the nomination up for General Drum (who is Al Smith's successor as head of the Empire...