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...specializes in an all-out "fire-horse" offense, Johnny is able to score with every kind of shot-hooks, jumps, tip-ins, lay-ups-and equally well with both hands. When Johnny is "double-teamed," i.e., when the defense guards him with two men, Ed, a deadeye long-range shooter, pops in baskets from the outside...
...shooting old reprobate named Scratchy (Minor Watson), the last bad man left in the little western town of Yellow Sky, is sadly disillusioned when his longtime antagonist, the town marshal (Robert Preston), brings home a bride. Confronted with an unfamiliar atmosphere of respectability, Scratchy resignedly throws away his six-shooter and says farewell once & for all to his glorious gun-toting past. In James Agee's lean adaptation and in some peppery performances, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky captures much of Crane's pungent idiom, and becomes a spry blend of gun-in-holster and tongue...
...rule," Blitz explained, "if you miss the first shot, the ball is dead and the shooter gets another chance. If he misses that one, the ball is in play." Still gaping, the B team continued play...
...probably make for a high scoring game," he said. "After all, the boys can't help themselves on a lot of these fouls, and when you give the shooter two chances, he should make one. I can't tell if it's a good rule yet," Shepard said, smiling, "but if it keeps down the fouling it will...
Although remaining a tutor, Leighton soon moved back to University Hall, this time as trouble-shooter for Freshmen who that year had moved into the Yard. "I have become more and more enmeshed in Dean's Office affairs," he wrote for his class' 25th alumni report, "and my claims as an economist are feeble." In the printing of the book, the last word was altered to read "feeble-minded", but this Dean Leighton laughs about and possibly regards as a delayed "College" prank...