Word: sudden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once spanked by a Chicago critic for his "gabby scoopings into the gutter," Berle has been startled, touched and filled with a sense of responsibility to find that he has a sudden popularity among children TViewers. Fellow vaudevillians who once resented him now hail him as a savior of the two-a-day. Once such a professional stray that he has never been acceptable to Broadway's Lambs Club, he will be honored this week by a $50-a-plate testimonial dinner (Thurs. 10:20 p.m. E.D.T., NBCTV) for contributing to interfaith understanding (he has played benefits...
...Russo-American relations are improving, that's great. But could this sudden outburst of brotherly love be somewhat influenced, perhaps, by the very firm stand of the Allies in Berlin, and by the extraordinary feat of the American air lift? It is a very common and tragic mistake to see in a change of tactics a change of strategy...
...among the '52 football players at this time is right end Fred Ravreby. Six foot three inch Ravreby spent the winter knocking people out of the boxing room and then started out the spring practice as a tackle. The sudden dearth, however, of right ends, plus Ravreby height and speed caused the switch to end, and here he will probably remain this fall. If he continues to improve, Fred Ravreby is the best bet among the freshmen to make the 1949 football squad...
Back of a Sudden...
Jack Donelan will try to reverse the sudden shift in the luck of the freshman baseball team at 3:45 p.m. this afternoon in a Soldiers Field encounter with the Holy Cross freshmen...