Word: charleyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Falling players leave slippery smears of sweat on the floor that have to be mopped up with towels. Trainers use freezing sprays of ethyl chloride to relieve the pain of a sprain-and keep the man in the game. An estimated 85% of the pros play with nagging injuries-charley horses, jammed thumbs, pulled muscles-and St. Louis' Pettit and Syracuse's Dolph Schayes have kept going with broken wrists. Robertson himself is just getting over a torn muscle above his right hip, which benched him for five games. After a game, win or lose, the exhausted players...
...kick out of college basketball," Robertson now admits. "It didn't excite me. But this game-the pro game-is plenty exciting." Playing guard for the Royals (he is too small for forward), Robertson has taken charge of the Royals, with the tacit backing of Coach Charley Wolf, just as he automatically has run every one of his teams from the seventh grade on. Robertson has learned to work in close tandem with Jack Twyman (6 ft. 6 in., 210 lbs.), the team's only other established star, but he does not hesitate to turn his sharp tongue...
Some of the fakers have taken their own places in art history. One Edward Simpson, a 19th century master forger of Stone Age implements, came to be admired among archaeologists as the fabulous "Flint Jack." Two illiterate London mudrakers named Billy and Charley produced and buried thousands of "ancient" metal objects, and such objects are known as "Billys and Charleys" to this day. An ingenious forger named Peter Thompson, actually a carpenter and builder living near Regent's Park in the 1840s, not only forged 17th century "master drawings," but also invented the master. He named the man Captain...
...chrome-and-red-carpet Vic Tanny gyms scattered across the U.S., signed them up to membership contracts of six months (typical East Coast price: $185) to "permanent" (seven years: $360) on the pay-as-you-perspire plan. Last week in Chicago, Tanny's muscular sell was sporting several Charley horses. In Cook County circuit court a blind man asked for an injunction to release him from a $385 Tanny membership contract, claiming he went to Tanny's for a job, was told by a Tanny salesman that he had to sign a free membership application first. In suburban...
Insecurity Forever. At acting school and later in stock, Berman appeared in everything from Shakespeare to Chekhov to Charley's Aunt. Classmate Geraldine Page remembers Shelley's "potent personality, which sometimes bent the plays out of focus." As the clerk in Saint Joan, "he was so startlingly effective you thought it became almost a play about...