Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early this year Bachelor Koufax was hampered by a sore shoulder that restricted him for five weeks to little more than pitching batting practice and lifting the arm of his hi-fi set (he likes Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky). Overall, he has a record of only 8-4. But with Koufax now at his blinding best (31 strike-outs -in his last two games) and crossfiring Don Drysdale leading the league in strikeouts (207), the second-place Dodgers have the fastest staff in the majors as they settle down for the September stretch fight with the Giants. To prove the point...
...alert, accepting "the Russian Premier's visit with that dignity common only to free men while holding fast to the thought and determination there will be no compromise . . ." After approving the resolution by acclamation, the Legion proceeded to elect its new national chairman: Martin Boswell McKneally, 44, a bachelor lawyer from Newburgh, N.Y. and World War II major...
Britain's Princess Margaret, an all-too-eligible bachelor girl, turned 29, was greeted by Britain's press with heartfelt congratulations and a bit of "will-she-ever" worry. At the royal family gathering in Scotland's Balmoral Castle, only one romantic mystery added spice to the day. An orchid corsage, ordered by cable from the U.S., was delivered by a local florist, who refused to name the donor...
Other agents have set up "bachelor tours" (which many married couples join), tours that swing through great museums or restaurants, great beaches or battlefronts. Three years ago Camera Bug Eric L. Ergenbright of North Hollywood opened his own agency, this year is running 30 camera tours-in Japan, South America and elsewhere-with live models and expert photographer-guides. One agency set up a religious tour of Israel, complete with kosher food, tossed in a surprising fringe benefit: a special audience with Pope John XXIII on the way back...
...swallow life's little ironies or surprises, he puts his literary X-ray machine to work photographing the newly revealed conformations and deformations of man. In this collection of 16 short stories, Author Updike's plots vary-they may turn on a boy's whistle, a bachelor girl's bed, a bottle of wine-but the personality changes that result share the kinship of human nature well-observed...