Word: cobb
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Linebackers Matt Donelan and Don Chiofaro did their darndest to fill the gaps, and overworked cornerback Bill Cobb moved in tighter after the Lafayette touchdown...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Joanne Woodward's 1957 Academy Award-winning performance in The Three Faces of Eve, supported by David Wayne and Lee J. Cobb...
...hits in three trips against the Kansas City Athletics, boosted his batting average to .320, and allowed: "I stay lucky, I got a chance to win the title again." If Oliva does, he will be the first American Leaguer to win three straight batting championships since Ty Cobb...
Even with Boxing Gloves. Oliva's haphazard style would have horrified Perfectionist Cobb. It terrifies opposing pitchers. "Where are you going to pitch the guy?" asks California's Dean Chance. "Earlier this year I jammed him and he hit the ball into the rightfield seats. So the next time I went outside with him and he hit the ball 350 ft. into the leftfield stands." Twins Manager Sam Mele says, "I think the kid could hit wearing boxing gloves," predicts that Oliva may yet become the first big-leaguer to bat .400 since Ted Williams...
...leading roles, the producers cast the two Broadway originals: Lee J. Cobb as Willy and Mildred Dunnock as his wife Linda. They knew their parts by heart-and by body. Since her debut in the part, Dunnock's hair had turned grey and she had become a grandmother; the lines on her face were real; her poignancy and power were all the more effective for her age. Cobb, now 54, had played the part so memorably (330 times) on Broadway that he and Willy have become nearly indistinguishable. Even on TV's western series, The Virginian, he seemed...