Word: pete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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West. On the Pacific Coast, every college is out to trip Stanford, favorite to Notre Dame Halfback Jack Warner. win the Conference title again this year. Backs Hugh Gallarneau and Norman Standlee have graduated to professional football; Pete Kmetovic is the only ball-carrying regular left over. But Quarterback Frankie Albert, the blithe, brilliant southpaw who is the key man of Stanford's devastating T formation, will still handle the ball-carriers, whoever they...
...Pete Wolff, captain and guard, is back. So is Lon Bufalino, a back who showed great stuff last year and should be terrific this year unless a leg injury keeps him from playing. Then there is Kenny Stofer, a fine triple-threat Junior, with lots on the ball. Norm Christenson, the guy who played right behind Nick Drahos on the line last year, fills up one of the tackle slots, while Ed VanOrder, who worked into the starting lineup late last season against Yale (do I hear a boo?), is his running mate. Then there are a couple of veteran...
...game season) and have been coasting ever since. They go into the series with three of the league's top four home-run hitters: Outfielders Charley Keller (33), Tommy Henrich (31) and Joe Di Maggio (30)-a trio who can also outfield and outthrow Brooklyn's Outfielders Pete Reiser, Joe Medwick, Dixie Walker...
Besides Camilli, Brooklyn has Rookie Pete Reiser, its fabulous $100 find, who has outhit (.343) every batter in the National League; scrappy Joe Medwick (.318), a good man to have when the chips are down; and dead-eye Dixie Walker, a consistent .300 hitter who has broken up many a ball game during the Dodgers' nerve-racking last few weeks...
...clear the ingredients, the essence, and the peculiarities of the jazz music around which his 400 pages are stacked. The rather naive contrast built up between brother Frank, who lets his jazz be diluted with doses of commercialism when he reaches the citadels of fame and fortune, and brother Pete, who goes on playing the so-called righteous stuff for few sous, loses, much of its force with the uninitiated reader who cannot understand all the differences between popular and hot music. Steig, comprehending these distinctions himself cannot recapture them in print...