Word: big
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same event. Tied for first: Oklahoma State's Jim Graham and Aubrey Dooley (15 ft. 5 in.). Oklahoma's J. D. Martin, who vaulted 15 ft. 3¾ in., had to be content with third place. ¶ At a special meeting in Columbus, Ohio, baseball's big league club owners finally faced up to the fact that other cities are clamoring for major league franchises, declared they would "favorably consider" a third major league composed of "an acceptable group of eight clubs." Said Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick: "I firmly believe we will have a third league within...
...went down together with vaudeville, pursued by child-welfare officers and cops hunting for the bales of towels Mother filched from hotels. To escape, Baby June eloped when she was 13 with one of the chorus boys, aged 18, outran Mama in a breathless chase to the honeymoon train. Big Sister Gypsy was booked by Mama in a Kansas City burlesque house, soon struck a jackpot at Minsky's in Manhattan and put up Mama in velvety splendor in a flat above the honky-tonks of 42nd Street...
...always believed in direct action. In 1955 he walked through the streets in red underwear because the Braves lost the pennant. In 1958 he sat for 43 days atop the Hotel Balliet to promote a community youth center. Gaudy accomplishments, indeed -but would Bandy be ready when the really big challenge came...
...Times's Section 10 was a paid ad ($52,000) for Columbia's yet-to-be-released epic, They Came to Cordura, starring Cooper, Hayworth, Van Heflin and Tab Hunter. It was eloquent testimony to Columbia's big bet on Cordura-$250,000 for the book (about "Black Jack" Pershing's punitive expedition against Pancho Villa), $4,500,000 for the production. As for the Sunday Times, it might never completely recover its customary dignity after the headline on the Hayworth article: Sex Goddess Goes Straight. But Columbia feels the ad will "raise the stature...
...believed the 17th century Dutch explorers who reported seeing an animal as big as a man, with a head like a deer and a long tail like an alligator, that stood on its hind legs like a bird and hopped like a frog. The kangaroo was real, nevertheless, and also real (probably or possibly) are other strange animals that have been seen only rarely by civilized man. This is the conviction of French-born Bernard Heuvelmans, and his book, On the Track of Unknown Animals (Hill & Wang; $6.95), makes fine reading for people who like to hear that new things...