Word: comes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Louis neighborhood in 1919. An Irish-American mother, on the lower rungs of the middle class, and her four daughters are sweating out an August vigil for the sole son and brother, waiting for him to come back from service in World...
...calming influence on Mickey's mercurial moods. Occasionally he missed that steady hand when he was on the road with Sugar Babies. "Mickey hates to rehearse," says Co-Star Ann Miller. "He learns instantly what's tough for a lot of other people, and he'd come in like a little bull, snorting, stomping and yelling, 'I'm not going to rehearse it.' He usually would when someone would sit down with him and explain why it was necessary. When he's in a good mood, it's like the sun coming...
...walks a kid with big eyes and braces who looks just like Allen might have at 13. "Hello," says the kid. "Can I have your autograph?" Allen writes, not his name, but a note: "Hi. I'm casting for my new major motion picture. Would you like to come for a screen test?" Naturally the kid passes the test, gets a part and grows up to become a big movie star. Except that Anthony DePaola, of Old Bridge, N.J., who met Woody just that way,' was screen-tested and given a walk-on part in Allen...
Dave Parker, the Pittsburgh Pirates' All Star rightfielder, gave Willie Stargell his nickname, and the title was a matter of some consideration. "I called him Pops because, like a father, he taught us how to take what comes and then come back," Parker explained after Stargell had won the Most Valuable Player award in the National League playoffs. "He showed us how to strike out and walk away calmly, lay the bat down gently, then get up the next time and get a home run. From him we learned not to get too high on the good days...
...first, which Van Pelt picked up with a yard to spare. "The offense felt we could make it," Navarro explained later. "We've been having trouble with out snaps on kicks and I was concerned with the effect it might have on the team to get that close and come away with no points having tried a field goal when we were that close to the first down...