Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this garb may appear difficult, it will be nothing strange to Elke, who has an established reputation at Stanford for doing the bizarre and difficult. Among his accomplishments are a full-fledged but unofficial rally for the Bridge Team and the political maneuvering of an unknown local guitar player into a leading candidate for student council president...
Coach Harper still likes the scrappy, alert game of play maker and team captain Bill Hickey. "Murphy is probably the best all around player, a good shot and good defensive man, but you have to remember he's had the most experience and the other boys may still catch up with him," Harper said. Murphy played with a state high school championship team in Iowa...
...demonstrated its new, small, unbreakable record (TIME, Dec. 27). It has a large center hole, and is geared for 45 revolutions a minute (compared to the standard 78). Thus it could not be played on conventional phonographs or on Columbia's attachments. It required a new record player, made by RCA. The advantages of the new record (higher fidelity, faster changing) seemed to be outweighed by the disadvantages. Victor would not even promise that "Victorgroove" would be cheaper. All it promised was that "the new system will be at least competitive" with...
...actor, Douglas was born only yesterday. For all but the last three of his 41 years he had been practically everything else-including fast shuffles as a lifeguard, paint salesman and professional football player. His first radio job was as an announcer on Philadelphia's WCAU, a $55-a-week steppingstone to a far fatter income as a sports and special-events broadcaster...
...system does not "go like this: a player in a major sport gets his big H even if he sees only 5 seconds of action against Yale," as any member of the track, swimming, baseball, or crew organizations will gladly tell you. Even in basketball and hockey, only a comparatively few men see action unless the contest has turned into a rout. In swimming and track, you not only have to be practically on the first team just to compete against Yale, but you have to score points to earn your letter. The minor sports, then, are hardly the only...