Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Penn holds an edge in backfield power while the Crimson, led by tackles Pete Briggs and Bob Shaunessy, and ends Hooper and Copeland, will have a slight advantage up front...
...combination of a muddy field and damaging injuries to both squads, will make the game a close one, although a slight edge has been given to Penn, eager for its first win of the year and playing before a partisan Homecoming Day crowd
...Paar's peculiar combination of casual intensity and wit has caused one fan to call him "a cross between Billy Graham and Fred Allen." He cracks that he is "Lawrence Welk without music." Not far beneath his self-deprecating, unruffled exterior is a sensitive, often defensive man whose slight-looking build (6 ft., 174 Ibs.) shoulders a sizeable chip. Proclaiming his motto to be "Leave everybody to hell alone," Paar lives quietly with his second wife, a daughter, 8, and swimming pool in suburban Bronxville, N.Y. "I'm so lovable," Jack says. ". . . There have been all kinds...
...slight but properly parodistic music for all this is provided by Composer Leon Pober and Arranger Bob Thompson. As of now, Thompson is the only Couch collaborator who has been analyzed, but, says Lyricist Freeman, "If we sell 100,000 albums, I will owe it to the analytic profession to be analyzed myself...
Moreover, the premeditating murderer, upon calculation, knows that his chances of actually being executed are very slight. During the first fifty years of this century, in England and Wales, almost 7,500 murders were known to the police. Yet, because of factors like suicide, non-apprehension, acquittal, insanity, reprieves, etc. only 632 criminals were executed, about one out of twelve. In the U. S. the ratio of homocides to executions is even greater...