Word: bobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bob Mathias, who outran, out-jumped, and out-threw 34 of the world's best last summer to become the youngest (17) Olympic decathlon champion in history, became the youngest to win the James E. Sullivan Memorial Award as 1948's amateur of the year. He also ran a close second to baseball's highly professional Lou Boudreau in the poll for the year's No. 1 male athlete...
Rabbit & Witch. U.S. television screens also swarm with puppets, and U.S. moppets also react enthusiastically. Probably the most popular U.S. marionette is NBC's Howdy Doody,* a drawling, cow-country character who cavorts through a half-hour show with M.C. Bob Smith. In Chicago, Burr Tillstrom's Kukla, Fran and Ollie is not only the best children's show but has been called the best show of any kind on Midwestern TV. Puppets Kukla and Ollie are, respectively, a small boy and a kindly, one-toothed dragon. Fran is blonde Actress Fran Allison, the only human...
...British-born Bob Hope once admitted: "It's too fast...
...Paleface. Bob Hope and Jane Russell wring some horse laughs out of a parody on horse operas (TIME...
...Norris turned in the outstanding performance of the day by clinching the 440-yd freestyle in 5:15. Bob Burke also distinguished himself by taking two firsts--the 100 and 220-yd freestyles...