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JOHN PRCHLIK, king-pin of the 1944 Yale foreward wall, is a sixty-minute ball player as well as the Eli's heavy-weight wrestler. The six feet three inch right guard's blocks from his running guard position have received approval from Eli fans all fall...
...frying pan"). As the years passed, her gentle, shy face assumed something of the granite features of Father Potter. She often wore big wooden-soled clogs, and skirts of hard, crude tweed, woven from the wool of her own sheep and fastened at the back with a safety-pin-creating such an impression that a tramp, passing her once in a rainstorm, called sympathetically: "It's sad weather for the likes o' thee...
...critics had made at least a few gains. Said one Paley convert: "It's a funny game where the jackasses pin the tail on the people, but that's radio until the people realize it." Said a shrewd radio editor, veteran of many an N.A.B. convention: "At least they had it thrown in their faces by one of their own kind. They had to face it. And they're going to have to face it from now on. FCC has licensed more than 400 new stations in the last year and there's more coming. That...
Author Hoberecht's plot was simple, sentimental and surefire: in captured Jap strongholds in the Pacific, War Correspondent Kent Wood found faded pin-up pictures of an almond-eyed cinema star (who looked a lot like Movie Actress Yetkiko Todoroki, good friend of the author). Later, in Tokyo, they met and fell in love. But they had to woo in secret, for her studio forbade fraternization. When another correspondent was murdered by a former Nazi spy, Hero Kent Wood was suspect. His girl friend tossed away her chance for a big role by confessing that she was with...
...American working for Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard: "Hey, have you heard that Göring committed suicide?" She had known the G.I. since childhood, but she had heard latrine rumors before, so she let it pass. Another guard told Mutual's Robert Gary, who tried to pin it down in time for a Gabriel Heatter news broadcast and got nowhere. "A man could ruin himself in five minutes," said Gary, virtuously, "by broadcasting a silly report like that...