Word: ager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student of the game ("Babe Ruth killed scientific ball"), Carey mem orized the mannerisms of pitchers, once pulled nine consecutive successful double steals with a teammate named Casey Sten gel, established the modern National League standard of 738 thefts. After re tiring, he returned to the Dodgers as man ager in 1932 and 1933, was, until his re lease three weeks ago, racing judge at the Miami Beach Kennel Club. But like many another survivor of the day when the ball was dead and the Players' Pension Fund unborn, Max Carey, now approaching 71, last week listed his total...
...playground, it's a jungle," (the camera focusses on his half-made bed), "and it eats up little girls like you" (a few minutes later he pounces). It also eats up poor young boys like his protege Bongo Herbert (Cliff Richards), overnight transformed from an ordinary lower-class teen-ager to England's hottest singer...
Singing such numbers as Dynamite, Bill Bailey, When the Saints Go Marching In, she can transform herself with a clap of her chubby hands from a comics-reading teen-ager into a tortured woman. But her career suggests a peculiar problem: if she sounds 32 at 16, how will she sound...
Only Up. Redmond came to New Orleans in 1953, the choice of a school board that searched the U.S. for two years. He found an administrative system so muddled that even a business man ager was lacking. Despite mounting enrollments (from 65,000 then to 94,000 now), only three new schools had been completed since 1938. "There was no place to go but up," he says...
...always run to catch their trains, shovel snow, smoke two packs of cigarettes a day and lose their tempers frequently. Fat men should eat heartily to make sure they stay fat. Middle-aged executives should play 72 holes of golf or five sets of tennis singles with a teen-ager every weekend. Above all, every executive should work as if there were 28 hours in each day, and whenever an ailment crops up, avoid doctors and treat it himself...