Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time he took over as CAB chairman, Jim Landis had built up a solid reputation as a crack administrator, fair & square. (He also has a redoubtable reputation as a bridge and poker player.) What he lacked was aviation know-how. Some of the CAB veterans supplied that. Colonel Clarence M. Young, 57, CAB's technical expert and onetime Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, is a top man. Oswald Ryan, 58, another Harvard lawyer and one of the original members of the board, is CAB's legalist, steady, if not brilliant. Harllee Branch, 67, a onetime Washington correspondent...
...counterpoint of Gilbertian song. Through him, too, many a D'Oyly Carte Company member rose from the ranks to stardom. It was rarely a smooth rise: Gilbert's temper was as full of spikes as a bag of nails, his rehearsals long and terrifying. Once, when a player warmly urged his untalented mistress on Gilbert for a star part, Gilbert turned to a friend, said: "The fellow's obviously trying to blow his own strumpet...
Williams has a record so far which bodes no ill for the home team, but the visitors boast in George Owen 3rd an outstanding player and the son of a former Crimson great...
Starring for the Elephants in their surprise win was Robert Crichton, while Dave Bishop was outstanding for the Commuters. In the Adams-Winthrop tussle, Hugh Wheelwright of the Gold Coasters was the leading player...
Although he has spent 55 minutes in the penalty box this season, he is not a rough player. (Says Coach Dick Irvin: "He is the most marked man in the league. He has done well because he keeps his mouth shut, his ears open and his hands up.") The Rocket saves his tantrums for the golf course where he often breaks a club over his knee in a magnificent rage. At home, easygoing Maurice Richard lets his wife, Lucille, do the talking as well as the cooking. Says he: "She's not too bad . . . she's 21 - just...