Word: clay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What happened with New York will never happen again," vowed Editor Clay Felker after his humiliating loss of that magazine in 1976 to Australian Publisher Rupert Murdoch. Never can be a very short time in the publishing business. This week Felker will lose another magazine, Esquire (circ. 650,000), which he bought in 1977 with money from British Publisher Vere Harmsworth's Associated Newspapers. Associated is selling most of its interest in Esquire to 13-30 Corp. of Knoxville, Tenn., a small but fast-growing publisher of specialized magazines (New Marriage, Nutshell, Graduate) aimed at readers aged...
...they develop personalities on the field as well--DiMaggio's kingly elegance, Ryne Duren's fastball-to-the-loge weirdness. Thurman Munson's combative surliness--and, in the end, these personalities are more engaging. For the most part, you get these personalities in The Yankees, personalities on grass and clay, not carpeting. Your team, maybe, Remember Ross Moschito...
Crimson freshman John Bridgeland stumbled against Yale's Alberto Franko in the other "C" semifinal, 6-2, 6-4. Bridgeland played Franko on the Eli's favorite surface--clay, but nonetheless kept the match close. All but a few games went to 3-3 before being decided...
...Yarborough and his rivals still drive as hard as they did years ago on the half-mile clay tracks of the South, which is why they are millionaires today. They put on a spectacular show. In the Daytona 500 last February, Yarborough and Donnie Allison bumped fenders twice, and then crashed. While the national TV audience watched in fascination, the two drivers, joined by Allison's brother Bobby, settled their dispute dirt-track style: with a fistfight. Yarborough and Donnie Allison had another scrape at a later race before they struck a good ole boy truce. Says Yarborough: "Donnie...
...Boys of the Lough and The Red Clay Rambiers--Paine Hail...