Word: weaknesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whose Advice? When Labor Lord Addison offered a weak compromise, Lord Salisbury rejected it in anger: "Unworthy of consideration . . . the government has tried to blackmail this House." They voted - 177-to-81 against the bill...
...same age as Louis*) because, he says, of that case of typhoid fever. He came down with it 14 years ago, just when he was beginning to go places as a young fighter. "I could always punch," he is quick to say. But the fever left him weak. Undertrained and undernourished after living on relief, he made a try at a comeback, finally quit because he could make more money ($85 a week) as a wartime shipyard worker. It took a lot of talking by glib Felix Bocchiccio, a small-time Camden promoter, to lure him back into the fight...
Samborski did not name a starting left fielder, but he implied that both Jim Kenary and Len Lunder, who have alternated in left, may be benched for weak hitting. Their place may be taken by one of two Jayvees, Hal Moffie or Steve Howe, who have batted .356 and .457 respectively...
Richard Coeur de Lion (Henry Wilcox-on) is passed off as a weak-headed strongarm. He is fed a macaronic tangle of lines that would have choked the poet prince. ("England! France!" pants Mr. Wilcoxon as he paws at Miss Young. "What's it all matter!" And she replies, "One kiss to last through all eternity...
Despite his weak heart (which caused him to cancel his announced U.S. trip this spring), Gide is still a prodigious worker. He is up at 6:30 every day, writes steadily until 9, works with a secretary until noon. After lunch and a nap he writes again until 5, has tea and receives friends. He hates to lose at solitaire or chess, loves the movies. A voracious reader, he rates Dashiell Hammett with Faulkner and Steinbeck, was greatly impressed by the Kinsey Report...