Word: buildup
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...Buildup. In Denver, Mrs. Erma R. Gentle, 27, won an interlocutory divorce after testifying that her husband John spent all his money on hobbies, once exercised so diligently with bar bells that he was too exhausted to do anything else...
Some feel such treatment is excessive, but a review of his performance against Harvard last year, and of his season totals both last year and this, perhaps justify this Big Buildup. At least Smith, an all Eastern choice last year as a junior, is a very important cog in a Princeton football machine that has run down considerably since last season...
...fairly heavy line, averaging 191 pounds, about the same as the varsity's. It is not an experienced line. But nevertheless, Caldwell has Smith and Flippin to throw at the Crimson. Big Buildup or no, they can easily make the difference...
...quit now." Winchell, who does not enjoy being addressed as "Paul Mahoney," tries to dominate his dummy by demanding top billing, keeping some of the laughs for himself, and crowding Jerry's act by introducing new characters. A Brooklyn bumpkin named Knucklehead Smiff is now getting a big buildup. But Jerry, a redhaired, eye-rolling twelve-year-old, remains a scene stealer whose small-boy enthusiasms (Winchell reads comic books to keep in style) and good-natured sauciness (but none of Charlie McCarthy's lethal impudence) surmount the reality that he is actually 25 Ibs. of whitewood, metal...
...most critical elements in the buildup of U.S. air power still hangs in the balance. Holding that there is no need to reorder production-model aircraft more than 21 months in advance, Wilson will wait until the next fiscal year (beginning July 1954) to decide whether the Air Force will go through with plans to buy 1,500 more combat planes, most of them supersonic fighters. But the decision already seems clear: to pay for these planes, the Air Force will need $1.5 billion more than it got in this year's budget; already Budget Director Joseph Dodge...