Word: phillips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lady in the Lake (MGM) is an amusing cops-&-killer chase, based on Raymond Chandler's hard-breathing novel. As both director and star, ex-Commander Robert Montgomery plays Chandler's famed private detective, amoral Phillip Marlowe,* and also polishes off his first major directing job with dash and considerable imagination...
Pennywise (July). In Portland, Ore., street orator Phillip Baker demanded that police protect his right of free speech, said that every time he opened his mouth a listening drunk tossed in a penny...
Three times in one practice session last week, deadeye Andy Prillip, one of Illinois' famed Whiz Kids, dribbled down the floor and then passed up an easy shot at the basket. Instead he tossed the ball to Whiz Kid Jack Smiley. Phillip explained, with a grin, "Smiley's wife and little boy are up in the balcony...
Since the war interrupted their basketball in 1943, the Whiz Kids of the University of Illinois had stopped being kids. The four who returned to school wore battle stars and three were married. Phillip, who had broken five conference records in 1943, had been a Marine lieutenant at Iwo Jima. Smiley fought in the Battle of the Bulge; 6 ft. 3 in. Guard Gene Vance had been a lieutenant in the ETO; Forward Ken Menke had been an artilleryman. The four were almost as spry as ever, and had to be, with the likes of Substitute Dwight Eddleman around...
Against Pittsburgh last week the Whiz Kid guards-hefty Gene Vance and Papa Jack Smiley-bossed the backboards. Before they were replaced by substitutes, Andy Phillip hit for eight points and skinny Ken Menke got ten more. Down went Pittsburgh, 58-31, to become victim No. 3. Illinois was out to become the Big Nine's best again, but would have to get past Iowa and Wisconsin to make...