Word: stringings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Second-string center is "Soup" Gardiner, younger brother of big Tom Gardiner, who was A team tackle in 1941. Soup, whose real name is Sylvester, worked himself up from the ranks and finally earned a once-over from Harlow. From then on he was made, and has been right up on top ever since...
...pivot post, lanky Jack Fisher should give a good account of himself for all his lack of game experience. Flanking him will be two more second-year men, chunky Sid Smith and Boston's Charlie Gudaitis, whose Cinderella rise to the first-string end on Chief Boston's Yardling eleven last year caught the fan- cies of the in-town sports editors...
Lloyd Anderson '44, blocking back, filled in as third-string center last year to relieve the emergency caused by Burgy Ayres' appendectomy, but now he is behind the line again where he feels more at home. A fullback at Andover, he shifted to the blocking post in spring practice...
...three-cornered one between Wayne Johnson, Tom Cowen, and Paul Perkins. Everyone expected Cowen and Johnson to be fighting it out even before practice started, but Perkins is a comparative dark horse who has crept up to a position where he is a definite contender for the first string fullback berth...
Around these sleek contemporary figures, Novelist Powell groups a host of minor characters as bright and synthetic as a string of dime-store diamonds. Together they create an illusion of Manhattan high life a year or so before Pearl Harbor. "A sucker age," Novelist Powell calls it, "an age for any propaganda, any cause, any lie, any gadget." Gold-digging Amanda and Julian have but a single aim - to keep themselves on top. They are interested in making money, but more in the power that money gives. Even sex, when it is not a means to an end, is hardly...