Word: okaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard must have its running attack rolling on all fours to set the Bruins back on their heels, and there is still considerable doubt as to the physical status of two of the main cogs in that offense. Harvard medicos have not yet given Captain Joe Gardella an okay for the game, and they have declined to pass on George Heiden's condition until tomorrow. In the meantime, Loren MacKinney has been moved into the blocking job, and Bill Brown is holding forth at fullback...
...Evashevski, captain and one-man gang of Wolves, is Harmon's pathfinder extraordinary. Crimson ends and tackles will feel his blocking touch in the Stadium Saturday. A third member of the Michigan backfield is pile-driving Bob Westfall, the fullback. If Senior halfback Paul Kremer gets a definite medical okay, Coach Crisler will be able to field one of the best backfields of all time. It's useless to try and concoct new superlatives for Harmon; just try to imagine him as a combination of all the others. He is just as elusive as Dartmouth's little Ted Arice...
...returned to the Navy Yard dock; the President returned to the White House. Washington headquarters of the Democratic National Committee shifted to the White House switchboard its private line to Chicago. The President called Jim Farley, extended his good wishes for the convention. "How are things going?" he asked. "Okay," said Jim Farley. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, preparing to leave for Havana, stopped to lunch with the President. Said White House Spokesman Steve Early: "Probably nobody will believe it, but they're going to talk about the Havana Conference...
...remembers the years: 1928, when he managed Franklin Roosevelt's first campaign for the Governorship of New York; 1930 and immediately thereafter, when Tammany's Farley and a few discerning others began to think that their Governor might be a President; and the Governor's casual okay when Jim Farley put out the first Presidential feelers; 1932, and the cross-continent marathon of Farley handshaking, letter writing, spade work which preceded Mr. Roosevelt's nomination at Chicago...
...vicinity of the Willkie apartment at 1010 Fifth Ave., Manhattan, to find out what the neighbors thought, and what the neighbors looked like. Burbled Mrs. Benjamin Friedland: "He is a perfectly marvelous man." Said Tommy Rolla, who delivers groceries to the Willkie door: "Never met him. Mrs. Willkie? Okay...