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...Harvard lineup: Batchelder, g; Drake, rfb; Scully, lfb; Berger, rhb; Miller, lhb; Goldstein, or; Drehmel, ir; Spivak, cf; Weiss, il; Harvey, ol...
...starting lineups: HARVARD TUFTS Batchelder g Borghi Drake rfb Herold Harrop lib Dybiec Bell rhb Stauffer Pantaleoni chb O'Neill Miller ihb Glaffanos Weiss il Cratty Drehmel ir Morris Harvey ol Moulton Wolf or Clifford Spivak cf Bennett
...heavy-handed satire of "In the Land of Jim Crow" (TIME, Aug. 16, 1948), a series done by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Reporter Ray Sprigle after a tour of the South in the disguise of a Negro, Carter drawled that as a circulation-booster he had assigned one Sherlock ("Ol´ Fearless") Meriweather to do a series "In the Land of Grim Snow...
Scatter-Gun. Meriweather lived in a cellar until he developed a "skyscraper shadow complexion," and he dieted rigorously on Martinis, barbiturates and tongue-on-rye. Thus able to pass as a Northerner, Ol´ Fearless invaded Manhattan. His grim findings: gangsters, muggings, class warfare, prejudice, "rapine and horrible death ... at every turnstile...
...backing him, Eckstine gave them Somehow, in big, rich tones (he sings open-throated, instead of whispering into a microphone). His version of Ellington's Caravan had the fans hitting the trail (along with more than 1,000,000 record buyers). In his own rubbery phrasing, he stretched Ol' Man River to twice the length of the Mississippi, but the audience ate up every mile...