Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cayugans rate respect because hair team which last year tied thee Crimson's relatively stronger squad, has graduated only three starters...
...Boston writer asked Art if he was confident after the workout. "Confident? What do you mean"" said Valpey. I'm confident that we'll show up for the game." He continued in this merry vein to rate Cornell "among the best four or five in the country. The only thing that's holding Lefty (Lefty James, the Cornell coach) back is his schedule." Cornell, this year, does not have the kind of opposition that makes a national champion...
Manager Bert Shotton of Brooklyn had only two first-rate pitchers: Newcombe...
...ambition, a glib tongue, monumental speed and endurance, a flair for opportunism and an enormous talent for picking other men's brains and putting the pickings to work. Whether a credit to Wald or a reflection on Hollywood, these qualities blend smoothly into the makeup of a first-rate movie producer...
...pains, Wald gets only $2,700 a week, about half of what he is worth to a top Hollywood studio at the going rate for production geniuses. Even on a living scale modest for Hollywood bigwigs (a ten-room house without swimming pool or tennis court), he moans that he can save little of it after agents' fees and taxes. Though tied to his handsomely austere wage by an optionless long-term contract that runs through 1951, Wald gets some comfort from recognition. He flirts occasionally with another studio to learn how much he is really worth, and does...