Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...total of 275 points. They have been averaging just under 20 points per game. Shepard has somewhat revised his pre-season plans for fast-break ball to capitalize on their skill under the boards; his strategy worked nicely last Tuesday when the varsity beat a swift BC quintet by forcing it to play a close, deliberate game...
...which beat St. Anselm's in the second game of last Saturday's double header, has impressed Shepard as being one of the best ball-handling teams in the East. The Eagles have a swift and shifty forward, Dick Fitzgerald, who prowled all over the court against St. Anselm's, intercepting passes and sparking an otherwise loose defense. BC plays a blood-and-thunder fast-break game, with flashy passing and tricky cuts at the basket...
...hopes in presenting this series was that other publications would devise further campaigns in advertising's behalf. For without the swift exchange of goods and news about those goods our economy would grind to a halt. It was to the wider understanding of that basic truth that TIME Inc.'s "Campaign About Advertising" was directed...
...blind, Tatum is generally acknowledged as the most brilliant technical virtuoso of the jazz piano. A musician's musician, he has been praised by such men as Paul Whiteman ("Tatum is a genius") and the late Thomas ("Fats") Waller ("That Tatum ... is just too good"). He delights in swift changes in tempo and key, becomes so involved in complex contrapuntal rhythms that his listeners are certain he will never find his way out. But he always does...
...Race," Garson Kanin has made use of some of the ingredients that have made his "Born Yesterday" the huge success it continues to be. And his central character shares many of the same cultural attitudes of Miss Billie ("Drop dead") Dawn. Unfortunately, however, this new play lacks the swift elip of humor of "Born Yesterday," and the story it tells is as sentimental and implausible as that of "Anna Lucasta...