Word: sportsmanship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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NEWS AND RELEASES. This Is Still a Democracy Department: At an FDR rally a few weeks ago, the Benny Goodman Sextet showed true sportsmanship in dedicating a number to Wendell Willkie. Tune was Gone With What Wind ... Record of the week: Woody Herman's Beat Me Daddy. Pianist Tommy Linehan and the rhythm section are outstanding, in addition to a swell low register clarinet chorus by Woody himself, with a barrelhouse guitar background (Decca) ... COLUMBIA has tried the interesting experiment of using a small jazz group to accompany a schmaltz singer, and surprisingly enough the experiment is a terrific success...
Campaign bitterness can still be easily put aside by an effort of good sportsmanship, as was shown four years ago when anti-Roosevelt businessmen rallied generally to pledge cooperation to the man elected by the Democratic majority. That pledge did not prove lasting, and for a good reason: good sportsmanship may banish bitterness engendered in the brief heat of a campaign, but it cannot make men believe in things which they have come to distrust progressively over a period of years...
COLUMBUS, OHIO October 27 (Sunday)--The Columbus Dispatch today quoted L.W. St. John, Ohio State University director of athletics as saying that Carl Snavely, Cornell coach, showed "poor sportsmanship" and "bad ethics" by signaling to his players while they were beating the Buckeyes, 21 to 7, on Saturday...
Next day, in accord with the bosses' announcement, Bruce Barton was nominated for the Senate. The demonstration for him from the aggrieved pros was pathetically feeble, but Tom Dewey, in an atmosphere of sportsmanship, revived the convention into fighting mood with a cutlass-sharp, partisan speech...
...running in LIFE, Sir Nevile Henderson devotes a puzzled chapter to Göring, who once told him that the trouble with the British was that they had become "debrutalized." Sir Nevile admired Göring's loyalty to Hitler, his administrative ability, his physical courage, his sportsmanship, above all his frankness, which does not stoop to devious deceits. He credits Göring with intervening decisively for peace in 1938, thinks he would have done so in 1939 if he had dared risk Hitler's displeasure. Summing him up, Sir Nevile found him "a typical and brutal...