Word: ace
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worked on such huge things) figure for me." Indeed, Grandfather's works ran to the heroic. Among his most famous works, a model of which is in the show: an erect, earnest-looking young William Penn who stands to this day, every bronze ruffle and curl in p!ace, on top of Philadelphia's city hall...
Died. Lynwood Thomas ("Schoolboy") Rowe, 51, an affable giant (6 ft. 4 in., 210 Ibs.) from Waco, Texas who was a high school star at golf, tennis, track-and-field and football before be coming an ace righthander for the Detroit Tigers from 1933 to 1942, relied on assorted amulets, including a broken jade elephant and a high-hopping spitball, during a spectacular 1934 season in which he won 24 games, 16 consecutively; of a heart attack; in El Dorado...
Robertson, the ace rookie from Cincinnati, and veterans Pettit and Lovellette from the St. Louis Hawks, took up the attack that didn't give the favored East a chance. In the first quarter alone, Robertson scored 13 points, Pettit 9, Lovellette 8, and Baylor...
...Hogan and other Democrats were clobbered, bands of anti-De Sapio reformers in New York City clustered around aging Eleanor Roosevelt, former Governor Herbert Lehman, and former Air Force Secretary Thomas Fin-letter (who had been done out of the senatorial nomination by De Sapio). They came within an ace of defeating De Sapio for the leadership of his home district in Greenwich Village, and they upended several De Sapio candidates in last year's primaries. They had Jack Kennedy's ear from the start, because Kennedy sorely wanted (and ultimately got) Stevenson-minded Eleanor Roosevelt...
Tooling through Sydney on his way to race in the New Zealand Grand Prix, Britain's balding Ace Driver Stirling Moss, 31, all but smothered himself in his own exhaust of self-crimination. "I'm a slob," he announced. "My taste is gaudy. I'm useless for anything but racing cars. I'm ruddy lazy, and I'm getting on in years. It gets so frustrating, but then again I don't know what I could do if I gave up racing." Has Moss no Stirling virtues? "I appreciate beauty." One of Nikita Khrushchev...