Word: stringings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That year the meet was held in Minneapolis, and there was walling and gnashing of teeth when Harvard failed to make the trek west because the H.A.A. could not gather together the necessary shekels. That was the year that Charlie Hutter and Pop Cummins first snapped Yale's unbelievable string of 163 victories...
...first-string backfield ravaged by graduation and the draft and his coaching staff riddled by the loss of "Skip" Stahley and Wes Fesler, Head Coach Dick Harlow faced a complete task of rebuilding from the bottom up as his Varsity football squad got their shoulder pads and jerseys out of the mothballs for the opening of spring practice yesterday afternoon...
Neither Burgy Ayres, first string center, who is out for baseball, nor Dick Pfister, regular guard, who is putting the shot on Jaakko Mikkola's track team, will play much football this spring, but Vern Miller who alternated with Pete Elser at tackle last year has recovered sufficiently from an ankle injury suffered during the wrestling season to be ready for heavy work...
Week before the Thompson shift General Hugh S(amuel) Johnson walked out on Scripps-Howard's United Feature Syndicate (which discovered his unsuspected literary talents six years ago), signed up (at a reputed $50,000 a year) with Hearst's King Features. Explained the General, whose string has fallen more than 10% since election and his strong isolationist stand: "Some Scripps-Howard papers didn't seem to be very-sympathetic and I didn't want them to have to carry the column when they didn't want to." One such paper was the Tyler...
Nice Girl? (Universal) abruptly halts the string of eight pleasant, sprightly tuneful Deanna Durbin films which have been the financial anchor of Universal Pictures Co. for the last four years. In it, grinning little Producer Joe Pasternak, who has nurtured Deanna like a prize petunia, has gone wildly askew with a somnolent essay on bourgeois life in a small New England town...