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...inherited a team of St. Louis boys (all his first-team men this year are local products). Then he taught them his basketball axiom: "It is a game of a million situations." He kept a piece of chalk handy and was forever getting on one knee to sketch new situations on the floor. His basic offense was a fast break that could evolve into a ripple of finger-tip passes that he called a Barrel Roll, or "a million" other combinations. Men like Macauley and Forward Joe Ossola helped make Hickey's theories work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stop St. Louis! | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...usually seems that her material is not on a par with her talents, and such is the case in "Along Fifth Avenue." It may always be the case since apparently the only ones to complain are the reviewers who have to say something anyhow. There is one really hilarious sketch in which she appears as a salesman for a torrid perfume whose motto is "When Nature Fumbles, We Carry the Ball." In most of the other skits she has little to do: in one she stands behind a restaurant counter and pushes a pie in a customer's face...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Along Fifth Avenue | 1/4/1949 | See Source »

...final part of the concert includes "Romance in Rhythm," a musical sketch in modern jazz style consisting of numbers by the vocal groups. Anthony Bonner '49 of Rome, Italy is musical director of this portion, which is arranged by David Edgar '49, Peter C. Hewitt '49, and Bonner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Plays in 'Drumbeats' Tonight | 12/3/1948 | See Source »

Cynthia Sweeney '50 and Miss Blacklock will fill the solo spots in the musical sketch section of the concert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Will Aid 'Cliffe Fund With Concert | 12/2/1948 | See Source »

Indeed, the grosser the gore, the higher the moral standards. One sketch, showing a sprawling lady with her dripping throat slit from ear to ear, was indignantly rejected because her skirt was rucked up above one knee. And, from the start, profanity was simply not tolerated. When the eaters of Sweeney Todd's delicious pies were told that their mouths were full of human flesh, they delicately exclaimed: "Good gracious! . . . Confound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Study in Scarlet | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

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