Word: walt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dear to My Heart (Walt Disney; RKO Radio), a sugary version of Sterling North's novel about an Indiana backwoods boyhood, is short on realism but long on entertainment. Jeremiah (Bobby Driscoll) and his little black lamb are good for a few laughs and tears, but the story is mainly useful as an excuse for Burl Ives's ballads and Walt Disney's cartoons...
Four lettermen are back, including Sherry Marshall, but most of last season's standouts are gone, including its three top scorers, Walt, Budko, Bruce Ghorke, and Al Vogel. Other returnees include Herb Poch, Norm Skinner, and Bill Lockwood...
...other words, it was a federal handout with no strings attached, and practically everybody was for it. Among its backers were Walter Lippmann, General Eisenhower, Drew Pearson, President Conant, and Walt Disney. But House Speaker Joe Martin thought it would cost too much, and with the assistance of some similarly disposed Representatives, was able to keep the Taft bill from ever reaching the floor of the House...
With Smith hitting from the bucket on sneaks behind Adams, and Steve Davis and Walt McCurdy contributing from the outside, the Varsity started coordinating a bit better as the clock was running out. But the jitters, similar to those of previous games, came back in the last two minutes and settled any chances of victory...
...Walt McCurdy will not start. Barclay explained yesterday that the crowd-pleasing set shot specialist "makes too many mistakes." McCurdy will probably see some action, though, as will forward Bob Bramhall, who pumped in three quick baskets in the second half of the Cornell game. "Bramhall will undoubtedly play a lot more on the basis of his performance against Cornell," Coach Barclay reported...