Word: sparkplugs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Munro is sticking to the same lineup that clicked against Navy last Saturday. This means that Jim Bell, a crasher, at center forward and Rick Drake, a good tackler, at center half. "Drake is our sparkplug," says Munro, "He's everywhere. He gets the ball and really feeds it forward...
...sparkplug of the congress was suave, greying Vicente Lombardo Toledano, Mexican boss of the leftist Latin American Confederation of Workers. An old hand at organizing pro-Communist meetings, he had the shabby hall packed on opening night with 5,000 people, including 800 delegates from the U.S., Canada and Latin America. During a two-hour delay before the rally got under way, they whooped it up with cheers for "Peace, Peace, Peace...
Affable, 52-year-old Roy Hurley has been in & out of the airplane business ever since he got a job as engine inspector for the Army's air service during World War I. Later he formed his own sparkplug concern, then moved in as vice president in charge of manufacturing of the Bendix Aviation Corp., where he remained for 13 years before joining Ford...
Marriage Revealed. Walter White, 56, sparkplug of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; and Poppy Cannon, 40, brunette food-editor of Mademoiselle; he for the second time, she for the fourth; on July 6 (his Mexican divorce by Leah Gladys Powell White was announced July 7); in Manhattan...
Producer Babb, sparkplug of this unusual moviemaking team, pushes Mom and Dad as if it were snake oil. The film is shown only to unmixed audiences after a town has been saturated with a ballyhoo campaign that leaves no one but the livestock unaware of the chance to learn the facts of life. Each of the 16 prints of the film now touring the U.S. has its own advance man, plus a lecturer and two "nurses." The so-called nurses revive spectators who faint during the bolder medical sequences. During intermission, after the lecturer's spiel, they help...