Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rollins, the second goodbye was no easier than the first. In 24 years, the college had grown fond of its tennis-loving, piano-playing president, his flashy sport shirts and his flashing ideas on education. When he first came to Rollins, he had found it little more than a playboy's paradise, "so far down the education hole, that the only place it could go was up." By last week, a long way up, Rollins had made a name for itself as a lively, unorthodox pacesetter among U.S. colleges...
...sport by sport resume of the new system follows...
Bolles puts no stock in this philosophy. His crews do not start serious training until the spring term, and such relative periods of ease as displayed these last two weeks show what might be considered an off-hand approach to the whole sport...
...crisp, compelling voice said: "This is Bill Stern wishing you all a good, good night . . ." With that sign-off last week, dark, dapper Bill Stern ended the sooth program on his .Sport newsreel (Fri. 10:30 p.m., NBC) and rounded out ten years for the same sponsor, Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. Since few sports-comment programs ever get on a national network, and even fewer last, Stern's decade on the air is unequaled in radio's short history...
These and similar whoppers, punctuated by dramatic organ chords, have raised eyebrows and blood pressure among sport-writers. The late Lloyd Lewis blasted the Lincoln story in a sports page editorial in the Chicago Daily News; the New York Herald Tribune's Red Smith devoted a column to Stern fancies. Some editors, like the New York World-Telegram's Joe Williams, feel that Sports Newsreel is a misnomer. To Stern, the point is scarcely worth arguing. "It isn't a sports show, it's entertainment for the same kind of people who listen to Jack Benny...