Word: walts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most efficient debaters are: 1) John Wayne, who is cinema's ablest proponent of rawhide masculinity; 2) neon-eyed Ella Raines, the most human and promising of the young sub-stars; 3) whiskey-whiskered, exuberant "Gabby" Hayes, the most expert old-timer in westerns, who looks rather like Walt Whitman endorsing picnic twist...
...American romantics like Walt Whit man have cried that democratic Americans "rise at once against the never-ending audacity of elected persons." But the U.S., says Brogan, "was made by politicians" - types who readily indulged in romantic rhetoric but were basically "matter-of-fact men . . . with a clear head for bookkeeping." "To have created a free government . . . without making a sacrifice of adequate efficiency or of liberty is the American achievement...
Boston College, unable to break its jinx, has yet to beat a Harvard football team. The Crimson victory was sweet revenge for the 6 to 6 tie last year at Soldiers Field. Bill Sweeney, Ed Davis, and Walt Coulson played bang-up defensive games for the Crimson as the granite line stopped all B.C. scoring threats. Blocking and tackling was vicious; the contest was "informal" in name only...
...Harlow and Harvard strategy of yore is the policy of kicking on third, and sometimes second, down. Designed to "make the break" for the Crimson, the idea depends on a high-calibre punter and fast wingmen. The point, as illustrated amply in the W. P. I. encounter by booter Walt Coulson and several hard-charging Lamar linemen, is to keep kicking after one or two running plays, until a break comes, in the form of a fumble by the punt-returner, or a blocked kick...
...fact that Worcester's line-plunging fullback and co-captain, Hugo Norige, who ran wild against the Crimson last year, was stopped cold Saturday by the welded armor plate of the forward wall. Especially brilliant was the play of right guard Ed Davis and of right end Walt Coulson, versatile Freshman from Lawrence, who also did most of the punting for the Crimson...