Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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With Oliver Smith sets, Miles White costumes and some superior showgirls, Bless You All is sleek and satiny to the eye. But if that adds to the charm, it accentuates the mediocrity: it denies Bless You All the licensed bonhomie and sloppiness of an intimate revue. Even Negro Singer Pearl Bailey's enormous natural charm is put in double jeopardy by her wearing a flossy evening dress while struggling with flat material...
This lack of height proved the clincher, but B. C. was decidedly the faster and better team. The Crimson, led by John Stevenson and high-scorer Jim Gabler (19 points); managed to stay even during the first ten minutes of play, but B. C.'s superior shooting and speed proved too much...
Since each member scored once, the Crimson line of Colt, Bray, and Wood seemed the superior on offense, while the Patton, Clasby, Horween combination shone on defense. Individually outstanding were Melrose's Bobby Marsolats, rated last year as one of the stronger players in the Greater Boston League, and the home team's rugged defenseman Jeff Coolidge...
...faithful: "Hate the U.S., for she is the deadly enemy of the Chinese people. Despise the U.S., for she is a rotten imperialist nation . . . Look with contempt on the U.S., for she is a paper tiger and can fully be defeated . . ." The Journal added that China should not fear superior U.S. resources. "This superiority," it explained ominously, "is only temporary . . . After the [Communist] liberation of [Western] Europe, the total steel production of the Soviet Union and [its allies] will reach 67 million-odd tons, which means almost a parity with the amount produced...
...editors worried not a bit about dropping an odd little strip from the top of the page. Its name: Pogo. But the reaction was sharp & swift. In came a letter signed by 18 members of the "Pogo Protective League" demanding that the strip "be returned to its rightfully superior position" lest "indignant readers everywhere rise up in armed might to crush this infamy." Gravely the Star's editors bowed to the will of the readers, restored Pogo...