Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Kieran, omniscient sports columnist for the New York Times; grumpish F. P. A. (Franklin Pierce Adams), old-school New York Post columnist "who can't remember a thing that's happened in the last ten years, but remembers everything before that"; glib Oscar Levant, composer, super-pianist, gag-stacked Broad-wayfarer-are acknowledged by listeners as U. S.'s most knowing know-it-alls. Master of Ceremonies Clifton Fadiman is famous for beating the experts to the pun while he puts the pick of 75,000 questions submitted each week by listeners...
...Oklahoma, every farmer knows the Sooners' record. In the last two years they have not lost a game, except to Tennessee in the post-season Orange Bowl game last year. Last week every rural radio was tuned in to the Oklahoma-Missouri game at Columbia, Mo. Oklahomans wanted their beloved Sooners to stop Missouri's fabulous Paul Christman. Stop Christman they did, but discovered that his less publicized teammates were good too. By the margin of an unsuccessful kick (7-to-6), Oklahoma was nosed out of the undefeated ranks and the Big Six title...
...goings-on involve the antic humor of dead Uncle Ambrose, who was so crooked, says one of the brand-new gags, he had to be screwed into his grave. To send his grinning ghost into ectospasms, cinemaddicts into delicious shivers, Uncle's post-mortem instructions command his loving heirs to foregather at nightfall in his gloomy mansion amongst the bayous, where they can be scared out of such wits as they possess after being left out of his will. The frolic is furthered by a rubber-masked murderer...
Robert G. Paine '41, of Weston, will succeed John McD. Atherton 2nd '40, of Glenview Kentucky, as Varsity football manager, it was announced after the game on Saturday. As winner of the Sophomore competition last year and assistant to Atherton this fall, he will automatically succeed to the Varsity post. Paine is a graduate of Middle-sex School...
...Post 47 of the American Legion, in a resolution addressed to President Seymour, said that since Browser "been exposed through the Dies Committee as a man definitely linked with Stalin and Russian ideology," he should not be given "the courtesy and protection" of Yale until he has been exonerated of the charges...