Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expert were much in demand. Furious Fiorello La Guardia put a stop to that. The only mote in Johnny Dunn's sighting eye was Anthony Hintz, the hiring boss on Pier 51 at the Hudson River foot of Manhattan's Jane Street. Andy Hintz wouldn't play ball with the hoods and their following of thieves and payroll paddies. He sent up word to Johnny that he could go to hell, and so he was marked for killing...
...Czechoslovakia's championship swimmers and the chief of its women's contingent to the Olympic Games (TIME, Aug. 23), who escaped while competing in events abroad. Last week, after the hockey team was welcomed back to Prague (see cut), the government canceled its date to play the Racing-Club de France. Reason: "too many of our finest sportsmen sent out to represent the national flag remain abroad...
...Very often it has been charged that we run interference for the United States and hardly ever carry the ball ourselves. As any football player knows, to win a game you have to have good interference, so that role, if we do play it, is an important enough...
...Knife (by Clifford Odets; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman) is Odets' first play in seven years, and probably his poorest ever. A kind of savagely spluttering memoir of Hollywood, where Odets has spent most of those seven years, it is a lament for crushed ideals and identities, a screeching indictment of vicious methods and heartless men. Its anger is real; everything else about it is contrived...
Murphy suffered an eye injury Monday while playing squash. He was released from the Massachusetts General Hospital yesterday but was warned to stay away from contact sports such as basketball for some time lest he harm his eye permanently. There is a remote possibility that he will play in the Yale game...