Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kenary, ace passer and left halfback, will definitely not play. Neither will guard Nick Rodis or end Stretch Mazzone. The availability of center Chuck Glynn is doubtful, but guard Emil Drvaric and end Bob Kennedy, both absent since the Western Maryland game, will definitely return to action Saturday. The doctors added that Chip Gannon is all right and can engage in contact work...
...status of Jim Kenary, left half injured against Virginia, was unknown last night, and it was doubtful that first-string center Chuck Glynn, also hurt Saturday, would be able to perform against Holy Cross. If Glynn plays, it will be with a cast on his arm. Stretch Mazzone, an end, was also considered as possibly being ready for Saturday...
...research that evidently went into Desire Me pays off in some pleasant background detail about old-world religious festivals and fairs; but most of the picture smacks of the studio. There is a beautiful stone house on a beautiful stretch of shore: it looks like a fine place to live in, but the principals who live there are not plausible enough to deserve the privilege. Once in a while Greer Garson demonstrates that a good actress is jailed inside all the suffocating wax that the studio has molded around her. Newcomer Richard Hart makes a cagey, personable deceiver. Robert Mitchum...
...setting to sea in a small boat with the North sea equivalent of a typhoon approaching is almost credible. The naval officer going along against his better judgment is somewhat less credible. But when they are being swept into a whirlpool with the engine completely waterlogged, it requires a stretch of the audience's credulity to accept a last minute repair job that permits the boat to chug blithely away from the whirling maelstrom. Similarly, the happy ending never would have happened had Joan Webster remained in character as the girl who intended to marry for wealth rather than love...
Guard Nick Rodis and end Bob Kennedy, both on the first eleven for the Western Maryland game, and end Stretch Mazzone will probably not make the trip to Charlottesville, according to the doctors...