Word: bobo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 3½ years of complaining that her estranged husband, Winthrop Rockefeller, 41, kept her "hobo poor" and "starving," Barbara ("Bobo") Rockefeller got a $1,000,000 trust fund that will pay her a tax-free $20,000 a year. Would the fund get father Rockefeller occasional custody of his four-year-old son Winthrop Paul, who already has a $1,000,000 fund of his own? Said Bobo: "The boy is not a can of oil to be shipped over the country...
...after day, Rookie Pitcher Alva Holloman of the St. Louis Browns plucked at Manager Marty Marion's sleeve. "I'm not a bullpen pitcher," "Bobo" Holloman would say. "I'm a starting pitcher. Give me a chance." Manager Marion just kept shaking his head. Two or three times, Bobo was called in from the bull pen to do a little relief pitching. But the big (205 Ibs., 6 ft. 2 in.), 27-year-old righthander was not very impressive: ten hits, five earned runs in 5½ innings. One night last week, tired of Bobo...
...mound in the first inning, lumbering Bobo paused and scratched a "G" and an "N" in the dirt along the third-base path. The initials were for his son Gary, 6, and wife Nan, who were sitting in the stands along with a hard core of 2,471 other drizzle-soaked Browns fans. Inning after inning, Bobo went through the initial-scratching routine just once. But inning after inning, mixing fast balls, curves and sinkers, Bobo set the Athletics down. By the fifth, it began to occur to the fans that Rookie Holloman hadn't give...
...eighth inning, as the tension rose, the Browns' Rookie Shortstop Bill Hunter made a diving stop of a hot grounder and threw out the base runner by a step. Bobo, who had already driven in three runs, enough to win his own game, heaved a huge sigh. In the ninth, the pressure finally began to unsettle Bobo just a little. He walked the first man on four straight pitches, issued three more balls to the next batter. Manager Marion was so jittery that he could not bring himself to go to tie mound to try and settle Bobo down...
...Boston, Carl ("Bobo") Olson, the U.S.'s top-ranking middleweight boxer now that Sugar Ray Robinson has retired, scored his eighth straight victory (and 51st in 56 bouts) over Norman Hayes with a unanimous ten-round decision. Hopeful next on Olson's agenda: a bout with Britain's Randy Turpin, who took the title from Robinson, then lost it again...