Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pealing for all it's worth, tabloid Grit over the years has given a big play to pictures and success stories of persons grittily overcoming handicaps (sample subject: deaf children learning to talk), decorously avoided touchy topics from the Kinsey report to the Confidential trial. Such a dry-cleaned view of the news stems from Publisher Lamade's German-born father, Dietrick, who with two others bought the tiny, two-year-old paper in 1884 for $1,000, and until his death in 1938 exhorted his staff to "avoid showing the wrong side of things or making people...
Warned in advance, he can play many tricks on the radar. One trick is to analyze its waves and then broadcast stronger waves that are just like them. If these are properly timed, the radar that picks them up will see a target at the wrong distance, and it may send a flight of interceptors to shoot down a bomber that is not there...
...obviously out to rehabilitate himself. His 2½-hour program included two secular Bach cantatas (Nos. 214 and 207A), the Violin Concerto in E Major and the Brandenburg Concerto No. 6. The Brandenburg was the most unorthodox. In keeping with Bach's principle that any number can play, Richter had the work performed by only eight players-two violas, a cello, two violas da gamba, two string basses and a harpsichord. It emerged as a chamber work with crystal transparency, uncovering contrapuntal voices heard as they were seldom heard before...
...tricks. Crouched behind his center, he kept Army off balance with continuous long counts while he twisted his head and acted as if he were casually counting the house. Then a quick switch to a quick snap would send him scampering around end on a run-pass option play. Sometimes he flubbed passes when the wet ball skidded off his fingers, but always, when he needed help, he had the most devastating weapon on the field: Navy's rapid little (5 ft. 10 in., 176 Ibs.) captain. Ned Oldham, a marvelous mudder from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio...
Oldham was everywhere. On the last play of the first quarter, he skipped through the entire left side of the Army line to put Navy in front 6-0. Then he calmly kicked the extra point. He caught passes, pitched laterals and ran like an Army tank all through the rest of the game. When Army did threaten, it was Oldham's interceptions, as much as anything, that threw them back. And in the final quarter he caught an Army punt, navigated 44 yards of Philadelphia mud to score once more. Once more he kicked the extra point...