Word: version
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turn last week of Joseph B. Keenan, first Assistant to the Attorney General and a political specialist in the Janizariat, to repeat what has become the official story about a Third Term: that Franklin Roosevelt would run again "if needed." The Keenan version: "Americans can be of good cheer, for I am sure if the occasion arises where any star of liberal leadership becomes dimmed, we can rely upon that one great American to continue the battle. . . . He will not see the humane policies which he has instituted perish...
...team that used the Notre Dame system, what to expect from a team that used the Warner system. But the universal practice of scouting has changed all that. Today no major college sticks to either of these famed post-War standard brands of play. Each coach teaches his own version of the Notre Dame or the Warner-or a cross-breeding of both-varying his attack to suit the talents of his players and to upset the calculations of his opponents. Although tackling and blocking still win most football games, contemporary coaches must have a fat bag of offensive tricks...
Broker Dennis advocated severe penalties for radio stations permitting such swing raids. Immediate cause of this protest was a broadcast swing version of Bach's D Minor Toccata. Scolded indignant Mr. Dennis: "By no stretch of the imagination could such performances be tolerated except by people of no discrimination. If this is permitted to go unchallenged, swing renditions of the Mass in B Minor will follow...
Impartial observers reflected that if Bach's three-hour B Minor Mass could be played in a swing version it would be a triumph of Yankee ingenuity...
Being a play depending largely on individual situations rather than on characterization or plot, "Brother Rat" does not surprise one by not calling for great acting performances. Nor does, it have them. Not comparing too favorably--with the stage version, probably due in part to the exclusion of the balder parts, it has surges of comedy mixed with surges of melodrama. It deals with attempts to conceal a wife and baby while at V. M. I., to conceal a women in one's room, and to conceal the fact of being out after hours. Wayne Morris as Billy Randolph manages...