Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then ECA needed a high-level expert to formulate and carry out its transport policy in Greece. Jim Glynn's application blank-embellished with a few more additions-was studded with so many achievements that ECA hired him on the spot at $12,000 a year and sent him to Greece. He did his usual competent job. But after five months, ECA suddenly told him his work was unsatisfactory and fired...
...Street Council was paraded on a float into Soldier Field between the halves of a professional football game. A group of jeering teenagers began to pelt him with snowballs, hit him squarely in the face. As Santa exited, angrily shaking his fist, he moaned: "There's a dead spot in my popularity-I just found...
...moviegoer above the age of twelve should fail to spot the victor from the first reel, but both suitors are written and played ingratiatingly enough to make it seem a contest worth watching. Miss Leigh also performs sympathetically in a variety of improbable situations. With the notable exceptions of the heroine's upholstered sweater and the calculated cuteness of a seven-year-old child actor (Gordon Gebert), Scripter Isobel Lennart and Producer-Director Don Hartman have managed to hide most of the comedy's implausibilities in a mellow blur of unpretentious good humor...
This is the first article in a series written by CRIMSON staff members who have made on-the-spot studies of American propaganda efforts on the continent...
Previously undefeated in collegiate competition, the varsity was hard pressed throughout the contest and Hugh Foster's three to two loss in the number one spot proved to crucial...