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Whoever gets the nod at heavyweight will have his hands full with John Chernak, a rugged football guard whose pin of the Army heavy last Saturday gained Brown...
...been innocently delighted with the snowflakes (the kind "that wear well"); but by the Christmas season of 1949, improvements had been made even in this department. Manhattan's Rockefeller Center designed its own snowflakes: they were of plastic, 19 inches in diameter, held by a pin to a 10-foot pipe...
Freshman coach Van Brower uncovered some fine material in Johnny Loe, lger Iben, and Bud Adams. Adams, a smooth performer, used a neat guillotine bold to pin his man. He wrestled at Easter, where Lee captained the team last year. Iben is an ex-Illinois State champ...
...good old days of Rudolph Valentino and John Gilbert, said Novelist Banks, the typical woman, "a creature of emotion," found that the movies gave her emotions an enjoyable vicarious workout. Banks did not try to pin down the turning point, but many a student of the cinema thinks it was that shattering 1931 scene in which James Cagney pushed a grapefruit into Mae Clarke's face. From that day on, the oldtime sleek romantic screen lover began going into eclipse...
...huge public by admitting with a gay cackle that money had always been his muse). But where other note-makers have nailed their colors to the mast and let their hair down to the last soiled lovelock, urbane Maugham has preferred to soak his colors in bleach and pin his hair in a tight bun. His Notebook (the whittlings-down of "fifteen stoutish volumes") contains mostly workaday jottings from 1892 (when he had just started to write) to 1949 (when he suggests that he is just about to stop). "I publish it," he explains, "because I am interested...