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...Texas, Harlow and Snavely got together over the wire the other evening and drew out an agreement--a gentleman's agreement. It had to do with the new substitution rule and each one agreed that he would not take advantage of the new "free-sub" decision to pull off one of the old sleeper plays...
Some competent geologists admit the plausibility of the continental drift theory, which holds that all the continents were once a single big land mass, "Angaea," surrounded by water. Angaea was presumably broken up and dispersed by 1) the centrifugal force of the planet's spinning, 2) the gravitational pull of sun and moon. The breakup is supposed to have tilted the earth's axis to its present screwy angle...
This concentration on running plays, this lack of variation in the Crimson attack, made it possible for the Penn backs to move in closer to the line, even to pull one or two men, who ordinarily back up the line, actually into the forward wall itself...
...reading which Mr. Fadiman has liked is interesting in itself and as a revelation of his critical intelligence. He has curious likings--all well justifiable--and he is not a Woolcott to pull Hiltons out of a hat. His book is an anthology which lifts the curse from anthologies...
When Richard Wright wrote "Native Son" he said something important and worth saying. When he and Paul Green made the book into a play, they didn't pull their punches. They said straight out that a society that wrongs Negroes is responsible when a Negro wrongs a white. The cast assembled by Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre associates believe in what they're doing. But none of them seem to realize that a good idea is no substitute for a good play...