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...Phil Woolpert, from nearby St. Ignatius High School, was a disappointing dissenter. In an era when basketball seemed to belong to hopped-up, high-scoring crowd pleasers, Woolpert stubbornly insisted that defense was still the most important part of basketball. His boys spent a lot of time practicing the unspectacular arts of blocking shots and bottling up their opposition...
Michener's story: a young lawyer (played with his usual unspectacular competence by William Holden) is yanked back into the Navy and shipped to the Pacific as a carrier-based pilot flying Panther jets. His boss is an admirable admiral. In fact, the Old Man (played with fine flexibility and insight by Fredric March) is something of a St. Francis in shoulder-wigs, who watches over his flock of birdmen with loving care, and especially over Holden, who reminds him of a son he lost in World War II. In the end, nevertheless, the admiral has to send...
...million votes cast for senatorial candidates last week yielded surprisingly unspectacular changes in the U.S. Senate. Democrats won the right to organize it come January, but only by the margin of a handful of votes in Multnomah County, Ore. (see below), which gave them, with the help of Wayne Morse, a 49-47 majority. Although 37 seats were on the block, there were only eight shifts from which the Democrats eked out a net gain of two Senators. Some of the changes (Nevada, Wyoming, Ohio) were a return to a status quo ante, i.e., before a temporary appointment...
...Martin, 61, scored the election's big success for the Ezra Benson farm program by upsetting Old Campaigner Guy Gillette. Lawyer Martin waged an energetic but unimaginative campaign, spouting hog-price and corn-hog-ratio quotations across the state. He will move up to the Senate after 16 unspectacular years in the House...
...last week Butler could speak for Britain with the authority of strength befitting the leader of the Commonwealth. In two years, he had restored the British economy to good if unspectacular health. In the first half of 1953, Britain earned more dollars than all the rest of the sterling area combined. Overall, Rab Butler could report Britain's and the sterling bloc's best year since...