Word: pep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rough-&-tumble, 20-year-old Willie Pep (real name Papaleo) of Hartford, Conn.: the world's featherweight boxing championship; dethroning cagey, aging Chalky Wright of Los Angeles after a 15-rounder that drew a crowd of 19,000 (and a $71,000 gate); at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Pep, who has won 54 fights in a row, is the third featherweight champion to come from Hartford. His predecessors: "Kid" Kaplan and "Bat" Battalino...
...shifted its strategy, there's always the opportunity for changing Crimson tactics in the 30 minutes between the halves. That, incidentally, is why Harvard is generally a second-half team. Revised blocking assignments against Princeton and the different defense against Brown were far more effective than any cinematic pep talk...
...Pep talks are in keeping with the Harlow personality, however. Although he does prefer scoreboard triumphs to the moral victories his boys were piling up earlier this season, the spirit of his teams does mean almost as much to him as the final score. Harlow likes to win and he likes to fight, and he likes his football players to be the same. Judging from the newspaper comments of the '42 eleven, he has succeeded in this respect. And also judging from newspaper men, he is a tremendous coach as well as fine fellow. To quote the assistant again...
Captain Don Forte promised the spirited student gathering before the Varsity Club that Princeton will be in for a grim football fight, while Slammin' Stan Durwood advocated plenty of pep in the stands just to keep his cohorts in the line setting up big openings for the Harlow backs to romp through...
Beat the Band (music by Johnny Green; book by George Marion Jr. & George Abbott; produced by Abbott) is a sort of bouncing and stentorian corpse. Always long on pep, Producer Abbott (Too Many Girls, Best Foot Forward) has this time loosed a regular stage blitz, with everyone in the cast seeming to chase a fire, and most of the dances doing everything but start one. With a nod from the plot Abbott has worked a blaring swing band, all traps and trumpets, into the proceedings. Even the costumes are loud as a St. Patrick...