Word: toe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Showman Billy Rose last week dipped an inquiring toe into the third of what he calls the Seven Lively Arts*−;radio. Despite the artful aid of filters and mixers, the Rose radio voice was flat and monotonous ("I don't think Gabriel Heatter has anything to worry about"). But Broadway's Billy was out to make a dent on radio. His brief, five-nights-a-week show (Mutual, Mon.-Fri. 8:55-9 p.m.) is a rewrite of his daily newspaper column, "Pitching Horseshoes" (TIME., July 15, 1946). Once a week, he transcribes the week...
Like the Varsity, the Jayvee backs will run an adapted winged "T" with plays necessarily similiar to the Harlow squad. For the key quarterback position Boston has a couple of old warhorses in Bucky "The Toe" Harrison and Frank Miklos. Miklos was injured early in practice this fall but is now approaching the form which won him a Varsity berth in 1946. Bucky flits bark and forth from the Varsity and Jayvee squads because of his utility as a placekicker, passer and ballhandler...
...Shawnee, the courses included enunciation, programing and "how we acquire balance." Students sat in on rehearsals and broadcasts, got pointers on microphone technique, learned how to tap time properly with the feet (the heel, not the toe). They were also exposed to such Waring inspirations as Tone-Syllables, a phonetic method of lyric singing ("Mah-ee Bahn-nee lah-ee-zo-oo-vuhr thee o-oo-shun"). By the end of the eight-week semester, all the students, including eight nuns, were fairly groovy...
Opposing captains of the two pickup teams Chip Gannon and Bucky Harrison, are now busy lining up their men for the intra-college series which will open Monday. Harrison, nicknamed the "Toe" for his place kicking on the JV's and Varsity, is no stranger to his opposite number Gannon, the Crimson's star half-back of last season...
...Tabl are the traditional toe-dividing Japanese socks...