Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Tuesday evening this correspondent was privileged to attend the annual meeting of the Ivy League Chowder and Martini Society, otherwise known as the Harvard Club Football Smoker. Gaffers of all ages from Harvard, Dartmouth, Yale and Princeton gathered in the Commonwealth Avenue hall to listen to four gentlemen expound on their teams-or so it said on the program...
...that historic meeting, the boyish-looking professor did more than just a good job; his sparkling clarity of speech, his remorseless logic, his deft and delicate handling of clashing national views made him the conference star. He presided over his own delegation briskly and competently, telling them: "Gentlemen, we must now decide just what is our official position so that when we depart from it we will know what we are departing from." The professor was learning fast how to tie fancy knots in his diplomatic ropes...
Died. Frank Morgan (real name: Francis Philip Wuppermannf), 59, veteran cinemactor; of cerebral thrombosis; in Los Angeles. A onetime vaudevillean and Broadway star (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1926; Topaze, 1930), Morgan was equally adept at straight character roles (the pirate in Tortilla Flat, the coach in The Stratton Story) or at his specialty: the ineffectual, fatuous old party who was alternately a garrulous liar and a gabby lecher...
...Price, Gentlemen." With the pressure on, there was talk of working Newcombe every third day. In next week's vital three-game series with the Cardinals, he is scheduled for two of them. Says he: "I'll throw as much as they want...
...price, Rickey put a half-serious $1,000,000 tag on him; that drew a short answer from Pirate General Manager H. Roy Hamey: "You keep Newcombe; I'll keep my million." Later, before the 1949 season opened, Rickey solemnly announced that Newcombe was for sale: "The price, gentlemen, is a half-million dollars, and when I say a half million I don't mean...