Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ironically enough, it was Szaro who put Harvard in position to try the final kick. After Fred Martucci picked off a Yale pass midway through the fourth period, Szaro rambled 37 yards for a touchdown to narrow...
...second half, the slick Sowley made a couple of acrobatic receptions, the first setting up a 36-yard Klebanoff field goal. Midway through the fourth period, Yale notched its final score on Ron Kell's one-yard burst. Sowley turned in a key 24-yard one-handed reception in that drive to put the ball at the Harvard...
...packed all he knows about the peak of swing (1935-46) into an encyclopedic volume, The Big Bands (Macmillan; $9.95). Like the zealots of whom and to whom it speaks, the book is cheerfully biased, sometimes repetitive, often superficial-and just as often stirringly evocative of the fervid period when so many groups (Simon mentions some 450) "swung freely and joyously," filling listeners with "an exhilarated sense of friendly well-being...
Apart from a probing sketch of Dorsey, Simon provides little that is fresh on such familiar figures as Miller, Benny Goodman, and Duke Ellington, but he gives appropriate recognition to some of the brilliant though now largely forgotten ensembles of the period: the sizzling band headed by tiny, hunchbacked Drummer Chick Webb, featuring Ella Fitzgerald, which triumphed at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom in a 1937 battle of the bands with Goodman's group; the lush, colorfully textured Claude Thornhill band; the showmanlike Jimmie Lunceford unit, whose buoyant two-beat style influenced such latter-day bands as Billy...
Through that distant and serene period, Churchill moved with the insistent and often rude force of a man in a hurry to reach command. "We are all worms," he told Violet Asquith, the Prime Minister's daughter, "but I do believe I am a glowworm...