Word: quarterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other passes go mostly to end Brad Quackenbush on short patterns. John Setear, who was used extensively in this capacity last year, caught a few passes in the first quarter at Princeton and then served as a faker for the rest of the game...
Midnight struck for Fordham's Cinderellas toward the end of the second quarter, when Army's cool, detached Quarterback Arnold Galiffa began heaving touchdown passes-three of them in less than four minutes. In the calmer second half (only four major penalties) Army kept its command. Final score: Army 35, Fordham 0. Despite the score, the Rams had shown enough power to impress the experts; it looked as though Fordham would soon have an outstanding football team if it didn't have one already...
...staff announcer on New York's WJZ, he left radio for vaudeville, convinced that "as time goes on, the announcer's role will become less & less important." That was the first of more than a dozen exits from the industry-and the only voluntary one-during the quarter-century in which convivial Norman Brokenshire has fought his well-publicized battle with alcohol...
Animal Implications. A quarter century ago, with another cast of characters dredged out of mythology, Novelist John Erskine zoomed into bestsellerdom with The Private Life of Helen of Troy, a smooth, sophisticated novel which gave Helen & Co. the immediacy of next-door neighbors. Erskine is now 70 and a professor emeritus of Columbia University, but he appears to have lost little of the confident urbanity and slick malice that became his literary trademarks. Always gallant, his defense of his Venus is both tolerant and graceful: "Her infidelities were only apparent, they were never more than intermittent, and she always went...
Nostalgia alone may endear Venus to the aging generation of readers that chuckled over Helen. But literary tastes change even if the authors of taste do not. Venus is not so clever as Helen; even if it were, the quarter century between them has probably depressed the market...