Word: unsung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another, and perhaps more irreplaceable, gap, will also appear in the Crimson lineup when the 1947 grid campaign recedes into history. Unsung will be his memory, for his job is to shine in the reflected glory of others...
...Dame-Army hadn't always been a rivalry that packed Yankee Stadium with violent partisans who had gone to neither school, and paid up to $100 a seat to act as if they were charter alumni. When it first visited West Point in 1913, Notre Dame was an unsung little Indiana college. In those days spectators got in free, Notre Dame got $1,000 guarantee for the trip and cleared $83 profit. In this game the late, great Knute Rockne (an end) and Gus Dorais (a quarterback) put on a great passing show. Until three years ago, Notre Dame...
Something of an operatic figure him self, New York's late Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia wanted to start a people's opera. Four years ago he did - the non-profit New York City Opera Company -and hired an unsung director named Laszlo Halasz to run it: he was the only applicant who had no pull. But he id have push - enough push to start a small operatic revolution...
...other girls were trying out, too ("An acre of mink and silver fox, honey, and me in a little old suit"). But Lucky Strike's late George Washington Hill liked Fredda's hep style, and she got the contract. For the next two years she was the unsung singer for the Lucky Strike Hit Parade...
George's library would feature a well-thumbed encyclopedia, and there would be tools in the basement. But George would spend most of his spare time attending to his duties as the unsung treasurer of the Community Chest. The Windsor household would revolve around their well-mannered children, and the elder at least would repay her parents' devotion by leading her local Scout troop and becoming captain of the field-hockey team...