Word: cheers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What happened next could have happened only in Philadelphia, and only to the Phillies. As the bone-weary team members deplaned, the waiting crowd set up a cheer. Hand-lettered signs bloomed: "WHO SAID IT COULDN'T BE DONE?" "RELAX, FELLAS-YOU'RE HOME NOW." A five-man band struck up Take Me Out to the Ball Game, and sturdy fans in the welcoming committee hoisted Manager Gene Mauch on their shoulders and carried him off at the head of a triumphant procession. "It's unbelievable," said Mauch, tears rolling down his cheeks...
...collects some traveling companions, including a prince, an excellent pig (voice drolly done by Comic Jonathan Winters) and a truly estimable cannibal (voice by Arnold Stang). They meet a succession of blackhearted monsters, all agents of wicked King Gruesome. Naturally, goodness prevails, with satisfactory violence. Parents will cheer wistfully for old Gruesome, but that is because they are wicked...
...cities and sleepy provinces, where the Tour is remembered all year, schools and businesses close to cheer it through. A brassy blend of road show and county fair, the juggernaut blocks traffic for two hours as it passes. Founded by a promotion-minded sporting sheet with the inappropriate name of L'Auto, the Tour is financed by advertisers, who pay up to $4,000 for the privilege of following the racers with sound trucks that blare praise for products from apéritifs to aspirin. (The Tour's current sponsors are two French papers...
...Adios Butler, world's fastest pacer (TIME, June 30), gave his victory-jaded fans something extra to cheer about in last week's one-mile Dan Patch Pace at Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway. The Butler breezed home 3½ lengths in front on the half-mile track, tied Bye Bye Byrd's 1959 world record...
...recently caught staring wistfully at high-fashion corsets at the British Trade Fair in Moscow). He arranged stopovers to receive welcomes from his own "allies." Boarding his private railroad car in Moscow, he stopped first at Kiev and then at Lvov, where a dutiful crowd turned out to cheer-even though Lvov is a Polish city snatched by the Ukraine after World...