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Song for song, few of Tin Pan Alley's tunesmiths can match the havoc wrought by a gum-chewing Oklahoman named Jack Owens. He has an assist on a public nuisance of 1941 called The Hut-Sut Song, wrote Hi, Neighbor, a song which has become the nightly entering wedge of Pal Joey-type masters of ceremony the U.S. over. He composed for Red Skelton something called I Dood It, and in his own tenor voice has crooned the merits of orange drinks and frankfurters for singing commercials...
...both dressing rooms most people agreed that although Jackson, Nadherny, and Furse wrought the destruction, the two 15-yard penalties against the Crimson in the third period gave the Bulldogs the opportunities and turned the tide toward the Blue. The first nullified Paul Lazzaro's twisting run through center for 35 yards to the Yale 10, and the second, for roughing the kicker, set up the Eli's third score by giving them a first down...
...satire, nor does he treat his subject with the glazed veneration that a member of the breed might easily have done. Instead, in the chapter entitled "Change and Status Quo," he sums up the pros and cons of having such a group, and indicates the transformations that time has wrought...
...guard was being changed at Buckingham Palace last week as Prime Minister Attlee drove through the wrought-iron gates. Attlee had come to tell the King, in an hour's audience, what members of Labor's Old Guard he was firing, what new recruits he was bringing into his Cabinet, in the biggest reshuffle since the Socialists came to power...
...phrasing is too elaborate," wrote the late Woodrow Wilson, in an old letter just made public last week. The professor-President was criticizing his own literary Style. "The transitions are managed too Smoothly . . ." he wrote. "The treatment plays in circles. . . . The sentences are too obviously wrought out with a nice workmanship. They do not sound as if they had come spontaneously...