Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roberts was blunt. "Can the present European Recovery Plan do other than place us in the poisonous rich-uncle, poor-relationship situation that has severed so many family ties?" Europe's democracies are proud. "They feel that they gave what they gave for the benefit of free men everywhere. Is it surprising they resent the role of begging from our nation...
...born 30-odd years ago in the Spanish town of Albacete. He married young, went to Madrid and studied to be a schoolteacher. Too poor to finish his courses, he became a construction worker, unionist, extreme leftist. In the Civil War, he fought on the Ebro, had a big chunk shot out of his back. He went to Mexico, worked for the Spanish Republican exiles. After World War II, he slipped back into Spain, became a key Communist organizer...
...soon cools into a stern self-critic. During the filming of Duel in the Sun, he talked -jocosely, to be sure-about out-heeling Satan and out-Laurencing Olivier. Now he says of Duel: "I didn't do much acting. I rode horses, necked with Jennifer, and shot poor old Charley Bickford." Of Valley of Decision: "My agent wanted me to be seen with a big female star. Greer's audience, he said, will be a good thing for you. It was a very good maneuver. The movie? I didn't like it." Of Spellbound...
...best season coming with the 1941 team when the Crimson won 6, lost 1, and tied 1 and blasted Yale by a 14-0 score. 1942 was a bad year and the Crimson lost to Yale, 7 to 3, to close out what a Boston sports scribe termed "a poor season against too strong opponents...
Meanwhile Jerry Nason hinted in the Boston Globe that Harlow's resignation had not only been forced by poor health, but that "a player revolt of last Autumn was also a factor...