Word: charley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even sad-eyed Charley Ross, the President's press secretary, was hard put to hide his smile. Gravely he introduced the bespectacled, sunburned little man in the seersucker suit to the morning press conference at Key West, Fla. "We have with us today a distinguished contributor to the Federal Register" said Ross. As the score of grinning correspondents and photographers could plainly see, the contributor was Harry Truman, who pulled up a wide-armed writing chair, sat down and posed a gold pen over a Western Union press form...
...went for his constitutional walk at 7:30 a.m.: . . was back at the house at 7:50 a.m. for a breakfast of grapefruit-" A correspondent interrupted to ask: "Was it California grapefruit?" The man from the Federal Register said it had come from the kitchen. But Charley Ross, with an ear keenly tuned to Florida pride, was more positive. "It was Florida grapefruit," he said...
High man for the Varsity was Charley Hellers with a 280 count, but Yardling Jim Smith was top scorer of the day for the Crimson with a score...
...remained to Franklin D. Roosevelt to bring ghostwriting into prominence by employing such eminent men as Judge Samuel Rosenman, Playwright Robert Sherwood, Brain Truster Raymond Moley and Poet Archibald MacLeish. Dean of them all, and perhaps the shrewdest, was the late Charley Michelson, longtime pressagent for the Democratic Party, whose typewriter supplied uncounted Democratic bigwigs with taunts that made a whole generation of Republicans miserable...
There are at least a score of available experience coaches and successful professional players, including some former Harvard players, such as Charley Buell, Charley Crowley, Eddie Maham and "Chuck" Peabody who could make good and restore Harvard football prestige, but unfortunately Valpey is not one of them. His plays were too complicated, caused too many fumbles, had no power plays, and failed lamentably in forward passing, and also in the fundamentals, particularly in blocking, interference and tackling. Obviously Valpey had too many trick plays instead of a few simple basically sound ones, well executed, and he failed to provide protection...