Word: young
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slump in used-car sales and the high price of new cars brought spring rumors that the big motormakers would soon bring out light cars priced at about $1,000. Last week young Henry Ford II followed General Motors in scotching the rumor. Ford is not considering such a car, he said, because motorists "want the best they can get for their money and are too accustomed to the convenience and ease offered by standard-size cars." The average length of motor trips is almost twice what it was prewar, said Ford, and the public is all in favor...
From there on, Webb keeps himself and the audience highly entertained. He wears his freshman cap with the same deadpan elegance he gives to his cane and his well-draped suit. In his job as hasher, he can toss up crepes Belvedere or lecture the young women of the sorority on table manners. At the piano in the sorority parlor, he can play Beethoven or boogie, but he prefers the works of Belvedere. His biggest, and perhaps funniest, moment comes at the Freshman-Sophomore track-meet when he lays aside his dog-eared book, rolls his well-creased trousers above...
...story was scripted by Director Huston and Peter Viertel from an episode in the novel Rough Sketch by Robert Sylvester. It concerns the hard-jawed heroics of a young Cuban-American revolutionist (John Garfield), who recruits a handful of assistant revolutionaries, including a slant-eyed girl named China Valdes (Jennifer Jones). Garfield puts his crew to work digging a tunnel from the cellar of Jennifer's home to a nearby cemetery. His lurid plan: to blow the dictator and his cabinet to smithereens as they stand about the family tomb of a bigwig senator whom Garfield has already earmarked...
Dusty Cook gave up 11 hits in his first start of the year against Wentworth, and six freshman errors didn't help. Eight freshman hits included triples by Ben Akilian and Ralph Robinson, doubles by cook and Captain Jack Donelan, and singles by Win Carduff, Bill Hickey, Henry Young, and Al Switzer...
...probable batting order: Carduff 2b, Akillian ef, Hickey 3b, Thompson rf. Donolan p, Young ss, Robinson lf, Wise 1b, and Goodman...