Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...universities (Temple and the University of Pennsylvania) for "recalcitrance." He had no idea what he wanted to do ("All I knew was that I didn't want to be an artificial limb manufacturer"). He became a sportwriter, later switched to advertising ("Seeing all that dough, I thought of poor editorial me. I decided it was the admen who got the gravy...
...prewar days, easy-swinging Harry Walker was known chiefly as the promising kid brother of Dixie, the "People's Cherce" of Brooklyn. Back with the Cards last year after a tour of combat duty in Europe, he was used sparingly by Manager Eddie Dyer and had a poor year except for some timely World's Series hitting. This season he got off to a bad start and the Cardinals traded him to the Phillies. Ben Chapman made him a regular, and Harry immediately began to hit as he had never hit before...
...Long Night (RKO Radio] is a powerfully unified, extravagantly energetic melodrama about a bewildered killer (Henry Fonda) and the cause and consequence of his deed. The killer is trapped in his little room, high in a poor man's hotel. He refuses to surrender. All night, while law & order works its way toward him and the curious public mills in the street below, he recalls in flashbacks the events leading up to the crime...
...Eighth Avenue, Manhattan atmosphere and guttersnipe jargon are accurate, though laid on with a trowel; some of the minor characters-trainers, punch-drunk fighters, hangers-on-are human, pathetic and partly credible. Schulberg has hung around the sidelines of boxing for years, but only as a spectator. It is poor luck for him that Eddie Lewis' relationship with his boss is reminiscent of Jack Burden's with his (a fictional Huey Long) in last year's Pulitzer Prize novel, All the King...
...nice," says Bell, "if you can stand the disgrace. I am the shame of Hackensack. My poor father can't go out of the house without being taunted about the three more people his son just murdered...