Word: pounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stalked through some willows to his pet spot. After a few expert casts (his friends say that he can put his fly into a sugar bowl at 30 paces), there was a resounding splash and his rod bent double. He played the fighting rainbow and pulled out a three-pounder-middling by Silver Creek standards. Then he caught eight more. Up & downstream from him, oblivious to buzzing mosquitoes, were ardent anglers who had camped there all night, so that they could start fishing...
...Down in the river bed, trucks were lumbering through a ford and up a goat path, newly bulldozed, where 25-pounder guns had been hauled up during the morning. Toward 3 in the afternoon, the brigadier announced: 'The spaghetti is cooked and the birds aflying.' He meant that the artillery was ready and the Spitfires were aloft. On the skyline, four miles across the valley, the artillery opened up and the infantry jumped...
Philadelphia's prize rookie (he gets the standard rookie salary: $5,000 a year) is wholly unlike the Ring Lardner version. A lithe 170-pounder, Richie is well-dressed, polite and as serious about baseball as he is about most other things. On the road, he goes to a lot of movies and lounges in hotel lobbies, like other ballplayers, staring idly at passersby. He neither smokes nor drinks (about three bottles of beer a year don't count...
...tall, good-looking wife, his son Fernand (who served in the British navy) and his two younger daughters. He used to be an inveterate tennis player, once was tactless enough to beat King Gustaf of Sweden ("Am I a courtier? I am a Socialist!"). Lately Spaak (a 200-pounder) has given up the sport, presumably haunted by the memory of his belt giving way on a Brussels court...
First event on the 8 o'clock program will be a wrestling exhibition between Harvard 165-pounder Donald Louria and M.I.T. captain Whit Mauzy, whom Louria edged this winter, 4 to 3. Fencers Neil McNeil and Bill Raney will put on foil and sabre exhibitions with M.I.T.'s Mario Abbatte and Frank Kellogg...