Word: quarterbacked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young Henry Ford II, quietly signing up a new team to help run his empire, last week found the quarterback. He hired Ernest Robert Breech, 49, president of Bendix Aviation Corp., as executive vice president and director, at a salary guesstimated at over $200,000. Breech will furnish what the company has needed-an overall coordinator second in command to Young Henry. A man who can shrewdly keep tabs on the complexities of costs, production and marketing, Ernie Breech is regarded as one of the ablest men in the auto and aviation industries...
...football windup-the 11th Airborne Angels v. the Honolulu All-Stars-a dead-eye quarterback named Mel Malloy (from Chicago's Austin High) stole the show. In a drizzling rain he pitched two touchdown passes for the triumph (18-0) over the Jock Sutherland-coached Honolulu eleven...
...Hearstpaper's editor turns to the New York Journal-American, favorite of "The Chief," to get his cues. A handy day-by-day echo of W.R.'s policies and moods, it accurately calls his often devious signals. The tabloid Mirror, its morning cousin, can usually hear the quarterback best, being closest. But last week Hearst's Manhattan running mates got their signals crossed...
...Turner, the Pacific commander had complied with those orders, the U.S. losses would have been materially reduced-"and there was a good chance that we could have inflicted considerable damage on the Japanese fleet." (Cracked Pennsylvania's Democratic Rep. John Murphy: "I have never seen a Monday morning quarterback who ever lost a game...
...rival Cleveland Rams had their own steamed-up passer, Bob Waterfield, whom not even near-zero weather could cool off. Besides his ball-handling magic and coffin-corner kicks, Quarterback Bob threw passes all afternoon, completed 14 of 27, two of them for the touchdowns that put the Rams on the championship end of a 15-14 score...