Word: armstrongs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...winning the award, given annually "to the player, who, by his conduct on or off the gridiron, demonstrates a high esteem for the football code and exemplifies sportsmanship to an outstanding degree," Stoeckel joins an illustrious list of former winners, including Doak Walker, Floyd Little, Otis Armstrong, and Dick Jauron...
...mystery too baffling." Superman was brought on with the sound of the bullet he could outspeed and of the locomotive he could overpower. Terry and the Pirates, Buck Rogers and Little Orphan Annie were liberated from the frozen postures of the comic strip. Captain Midnight; Tom Mix; Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, among others, became the aural equivalents of the dime novel and the magazine serial...
...1950s, he kept up a steady reissue of such jazz greats as Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke and Bessie Smith, and brought in Mitch Miller to manage the company's middle-of-the-road pop line. In the early 1960s, as Lieberson is fond of pointing out, he helped usher in the rock era by signing Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel and the Byrds...
Savalas' career as an actor began when he was 37, and more or less by accident. An agent asked him to find someone who could play an East European judge on television's Armstrong Circle Theater. Although totally untrained, he auditioned for the part on a whim and got it. "I became an actor out of curiosity," he said during a Kojak shooting break last week in Hollywood, "and at first my career was fascinating because the parts were varied." Savalas won an Academy nomination for playing a convict colleague of Burt Lancaster...
Scuttled Theories. The picture of an active President led Counsellor Anne Armstrong, who has recently grown in influence at the White House, to crow: "He intends to take a very strong leadership role; Watergate is a receding problem." Her optimism, however, was premature; Watergate is by no means fading. In fact, it has so permeated the national consciousness that its themes are in soap operas and newspaper comic strips. Orphan Annie, a Right-minded strip distributed by the pro-Nixon New York News Inc., recently made the point that a man'of high principles-like Daddy Warbucks...