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Howdy Doody is long on action and short on coherence. Smith, a six-foot 200-pounder, delights his juveniles by chasing, and being chased by, the clown Clarabell, taking pratfalls, and getting squirted in the eye with seltzer water. In his new role of Buffalo Bob, great white chief of the Sigafoose Indians, Smith has traded in his lion tamer's suit for fringed buckskin, but still struggles manfully with such gadgets as the Plapdoodle and the Scopedoodle. To keep things moving he plays the piano, accordion, drums, organ, guitar, ukulele, string bass, trumpet, saxophone, clarinet, trombone, tuba...
...enough water is present in the Missouri to fill the nine-foot channel, fine. But since the commencement of the nine-foot channel on the Missouri, a 12-foot channel has been started in the Mississippi. The nine-foot channel on the Mo was chosen in preference to the proposed six-foot in order that the system might correspond to that on the Mississippi. Now, with the 12-foot channel already planned for the Mississippi, the P-S crows plunge blindly ahead with their nine-foot ditch for the Missouri...
High-scoring Crimson forward John Rockwell, who played the entire game tacked Cornell's Paul Gerwin all over the court in the first half, sinking six baskets in a series of behind-the-basket layups. Gerry Murphy also turned in a fine offensive game, dropping four set get shots ever the heads of several six-foot defenders...
...James Laughlin, heir to a slice of one of Pittsburgh's biggest steel fortunes,* hardly knew the difference between the avant-garde and the guard at a foundry gate. English Teacher Dudley Fitts soon changed all that. At Choate, in 1931, Teacher Fitts took spindling, six-foot Student Laughlin in hand, introduced him to the work of such dedicated modern versifiers as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and E. E. Cummings. Laughlin, who until then had hardly cracked a book on his own account, burst forthwith into creative bloom, decided to bypass the steel business and devote his life...
...center of the ballroom, somebody pressed a six-foot box jammed with 150 long-stemmed roses into the arms of a big, bewildered girl in a rented mink coat. As they watched, Noel Coward and his old friend Producer John C. Wilson suddenly and shamelessly burst into tears. "We just couldn't help it," explained Wilson later. "There on a platter before us was the whole essence of show business...