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...Sparkplug of Youth Films is muscular, ash-blond Rev. Borland P. Dryer, 36, a boy evangelist grown up, who spent his youth traveling with such famous spellbinders as Billy Sunday and Uldine Utley, later studied at several universities. One day Dryer faced the fact that more people were going to movie houses than to churches. "We were missing the boat," he says. "The visual image was here to stay...
Lucky Forward is peppered with similar charges, none of them convincingly sustained. Says Allen: "Patton was the sparkplug and dynamo of the war in the ETO. The full record of his genius and far-flung impact on operations still is entombed behind an official wall of jealous silence and so-called 'classified documents...
...distilling enough of the historical essence of U.S. freedom and civil liberties to give The Lightwood Tree a realistic urgency rare among Southern novels outside the field of the race problem. The explanation is easy: large, balding Berry Fleming is a successful political operator himself. He was the intellectual sparkplug of a daring and determined revolution in Augusta...
...Gordon Stanley ("Mickey") Cochrane, 43, sparkplug catcher of Connie Mack's great Athletics of the late '20s and Lefty Grove's battery mate. His lifetime batting average: a hefty .320. After managing Detroit for 4½ seasons (and spoiling his health and cheery disposition), he forsook baseball in 1938, is now working for a rubber company in Montana. ¶ Carl ("Meal Ticket") Hubbell, 43, the great "clutch" pitcher (he always won in a pinch). Lean and emotionless, he seldom used more stuff than he needed to get his man, seldom tried for strike-out records...
...Labor government had every advantage on its side at the outset. English unions have been recognized as among the most mature in existence. The central organ of collective action, the Trade Union Congress, has good disciplinary control over member bodies, and is the sparkplug behind the present cabinet, which was so gravely threatened by the strike. With Britain fighting for her commercial life, there has been a strong prejudice against any form of work stoppage. To prevent grievances, pecuniary and spiritual, there exists a well defined system of mediation boards with broad powers, set up by the Attlee cabinet...