Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Easy to Hate. Father and boss of Irma is 32-year-old Sy Howard, a breezy, gangly "threeheaded genius"* with a fondness for gaudy sport togs. In Irma's infancy, Sy handled everything, from the first line of script to the last directorial cue. Nowadays, he leaves much of the writing to scripters. But he still rules the show with a firm hand. "I'm an egomaniac," he says. "The cast hates me, but better they should hate me and give a good show than love me and we're off the air." For conventional radio comedy...
...four-sport schoolboy athlete in Providence, Clarence Boston came to Harvard in 1935, the year Harlow arrived, and after playing fullback on the Freshman team, he played blocking back on the Varsity for three years in the days when Vernon Struck made his name as the magnificent faker. Boston was mentioned on the Colliers football All-American team in 1937, and a year later he took the heavyweight division of the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Championship...
Three deep in material for the first time over, Radcliffe's varsity field hockey squad may be the most numerous any college has had since Princeton, 85 years ago, abandoned the sport as too dangerous for growing boys to play...
...varsity sport, hockey players win points for athletic competition. Enough of them entitle the athlete to a Radcliffe blazer and smaller totals earn numerals, a shield, or a bright...
...earlier times, it was a spirit that terrified decent citizens. Beating up the night watch was for centuries an accepted sport. Breaking windows and starting brawls for the fun of it was standard fun for young men of good family. Up to the first years of the 19th Century, wrote Burke, "the Prince [later George IV] was an example of the men of his time; gamesters, drunkards, haunters of the lowest dens, careering about the streets at midnight . . . and having with it all a number of accomplishments, informed minds, sound scholarship, and taste in literature...