Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Pankey, Dave Skinner, and Quentin Styles from guards to forwards. Pankey is small but aggressive. As a defenseman his shifty action over the court found him popping up with the ball at crucial moments in raging opponent offensives. His sharpshooter tactics combined with the height of forward Ed Smith and pivot Pat McCormick should lend balance to the attack...
Steady but not sparkling Jim Gabler is shifted to guard where his smooth, consistent ball handling will be more at home. High-scoring hustlers Smith, McCormick, and Wegner will plunk from their usual positions of left forward, center, and right guard. Wegner has proved the smoothest and fastest man on the boards and though lack of height keeps his scoring from being consistent, his single-handed rushes under the basket are adrenalin to the Crimson's lumbering attack...
...Mississippi's ill-famed Senator Theodore G. Bilbo. In the bill providing $540 million for interim aid to Europe and China, they appropriated $12,500 to be divided equally between Bilbo's son, Lieut. Colonel Theodore G. Bilbo, A.U.S., and his daughter, Mrs. Jessie Forrest Bilbo Smith, of Poplarville, Miss...
English by Smith. Each foreign tongue is spoken by a different native voice, but the English on all the records is the voice of Henry Lee Smith Jr. Gabby, chubby Smith, 33, was the top Army man in developing the records, now heads the State Department's language school in Washington. With the aid of his own records, he has on occasion taught ten foreign languages he-himself cannot speak...
Before the war, Smith taught at Columbia and Brown, also starred on a radio show called Where Are You From (TIME, May 6, 1940). Like Shaw's Professor Higgins in Pygmalion, Linguistic Scientist Smith told strangers in his audience where they hailed from by the way they talked. His batting average: a respectable 80%. He made them pronounce such shibboleths as Mary, marry, merry (people from west of the Appalachians make no distinction), and wash, water, Washington. Smith's most notable failure: his wartime insistence that Lord Haw-Haw could not be William Joyce (he was). Smith thought...