Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army (7-0-1)-steam-rolled over Villanova 26-0 as Captain Pete Dawkins caught a pass for one touchdown, slashed 5 yds. for another, ran back a punt for a third...
...with the 16-lb. shot), even does some weight lifting, can press 260 Ibs., dead-lift 450. Says Track and Field News: "He's either the fastest shotputter or the strongest sprinter in track annals." Says the legendary Sammy Baugh: "Well, he's as great as any back I ever laid eyes...
...ultimate goals were 300 m.p.h. on water, 400 m.p.h. on land (v. the land record of 394.2 m.p.h. set at Bonneville, Utah, in 1947 by the late John Cobb). ¶ "Coaching football is a rotten life," said Michigan's mild-mannered Bennie Oosterbaan a couple of seasons back. "I'm on top now, and there is a lot of backslapping. But what of seasons to come? Let me lose the opener or a couple of other games next fall, and then watch how I'm blasted." An All-America end for three years running in his undergraduate...
Even more of a rarity than its tone is the fact that the big, black voice belongs to a white, 30-year-old Los Angeles housewife (three children) named Barbara Dane. Back at The Limelight in her home town Los Angeles last week, after her first crack at the East Coast (The Den in Manhattan), she stood on the brink of the big time, one of the few white blues singers who ever belonged there. Ahead of her were further club dates in Chicago, San Francisco and a return to New York, as well as an LP for Dot. Said...
...flooding Mississippi River for this week's TV version (Playhouse 90) of William Faulkner's novelette Old Man. The story hurls a convict (Sterling Hayden) into the 1927 flood and tells of his heroic struggle to save a pregnant woman (Geraldine Page) before society thrusts him back in the pen with no thanks and ten years extra. Director Frankenheimer prodded Convict Hayden through three days' filming without sleep, drove him past machine-gun fire, dumped him in the 168,000-gallon tank to contend with tidal waves, fog, wind, rain, flood-swept houses, trees, telephone poles, cows...