Word: buds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Herbert Roslyn Ekins won a race around the world on commercial aircraft by finishing his trip in a little more than 18 days. For that uncomplicated era his was a respectable feat; by rights it should have earned Ekins permanent registry in journalism's memory book. But when "Bud" Ekins died last week at 62, and his death was engraved on obituary pages from coast to coast, it reminded most readers, who had long forgotten him, of one of his competitors whom he beat back to New York by a comfortable six days. Her name was Dorothy Kilgallen...
...Bud Ekins' victory could not tarnish the luster of the also-ran. The Hearst papers sent a covey of reporters west to greet Dorothy, among them her father, James Kilgallen. Everybody wept. "Waiting, waiting," sobbed Hearst Sob Sister Elsie Robinson in print: "What's the big idea-I'm not supposed to cry, just because I'm a newspaper woman . . . So, as I was saying-there came the Clipper and there came Dorothy-who looks, as I've said plenty of times before, exactly like Minnie Mouse...
...next game was more of the same, only better. William and Mary tried to go both ways on defense; drop back to cover Staubach's pass receivers, blitz the linebackers to nip his running in the bud. Another mistake. Roger played greased pig all afternoon. Once, seemingly pinned behind the line of scrimmage, he abruptly reversed his field and rambled for 25 yds. Said William and Mary Coach Milt Brewer: "Instead of pursuing and trying to catch him, we should have just waited and eventually he'd come back to us." In all, Roger passed...
...handsome as a movie star, Bud Wilkinson, 47, could probably charm the mittens off a polar bear. But convince anybody that he could field a bad football team? In Wilkinson's 16 seasons at Oklahoma, the Sooners have won 14 Missouri Valley (Big Eight) Conference titles and three national championships, and rattled off victory streaks of 31 and 47 games. Only once has Wilkinson suffered the indignity of a losing season, and even out-of-state sportswriters know that when Wilkinson wails, he wins. So last week, after the Sooners outgained (360 yds. to 237 yds.) and outscored...
...Sooners had regularly clobbered patsies like Kingfisher College (179-0), just as regularly taken their lumps from the likes of Texas (7-40). "You know what we were before we started winning football games?" asks a Wilkinson admirer. "The Grapes of Wrath. That was all anybody thought of us. Bud changed all that...