Word: regularization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Drohan, ranking diver who lost only once this year in regular competition, has an outside chance to knock off Sper, a consistent winner ever since his schoolboy days...
...infield presents one of the toughest problems for Samborski to find an answer to. Only Captain Johnny Coppinger remains from last year's regular infield, and he'll be trying to pull down the hot corner again. In the running for the same position along with him is John Chase, late of the hockey sextet. Samborski won't quite be starting from scratch in finding a man to cover first base. Big Walt Coulson, who roamed the outfield for the varsity last year, covered the first sack in his prop school days and should be covering the same spot...
...company clerk when he sent his first shy offerings to Winchell. Winchell all but scared Stack away by giving him a byline. After that Stack was billed as the Melancholy Don, Kid Kazanova, Don Wahn, or Donna Wahnna -all trademarks of a kind of heartburn that became a regular Winchell symptom. Winchell never got a bill from him, never paid him and never met him, but the verses got Stack his greeting-card...
Last week, 263 sponsors and some 27,000 commercials later, Ben Grauer had come a long way for a baloney salesman. On NBC's big new documentary series, Living-1948 (Sun., 4:35 p.m., NBC), he was the narrator and star. In his nine other regular radio and television jobs, he ran the gamut between straight man and U.N. analyst. The New York Herald Tribune's John Crosby has said with some amazement that Grauer "does everything but sweep out the studio...
Perpetual Fogs. Macdonald has a few pages of fun with "Wallese," the language spoken in "Wallaceland . . . the mental habitat of Henry Wallace plus a few hundred thousand regular readers of the New Republic, the Nation and PM. It is a region of perpetual fogs, caused by the warm winds of the liberal Gulf Stream coming in contact with the Soviet glacier." Wallace is loaded with "ritualistic adjectives" like "forward-looking," "freedom-loving," "clear-thinking." Such lingo, delivered with the "expansiveness of a Messiah," is just what it takes to make his followers accept Wallace "on his own valuation...