Word: contests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...called up Big Al's one day and made an appointment to talk to the managers and visit the club. One week later, accompanied by three male reporters from my newspaper, I ventured into the club, cringing as I walked by a sign advertising that night's amateur contest...
...CONTEST CORNER...
YOUR TURN Calling all humorists! Here's your challenge in our first-ever Contest of the Week: Can you top Michael Pappas? Last week the New Jersey Congressman sang an ode to Kenneth Starr on the House floor to the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star...
...enter, stop booing, adapt a nursery rhyme of your choice and compose a stanza on your favorite newsmaker. Fax your entry to 212-467-1010, e-mail it to Letters@time.com or mail it to TIME Notebook Contest #1, Room 2321B, Time & Life Building, New York, N.Y. 10020. Watch this space for the winning entry...
That was the glad nerve Ruth palpated. When he showed up with his superfluity of power, the apparently effortless capacity to render moot all the niggling fine points of the contest, the game was instantly changed. The bunt, the stolen base, the Baltimore chop were back-burnered for decades. Ruth's brash Yankees went to the 1923 World Series against the New York Giants, the classiest tacticians of their day. The series went to six games, but the Babe poled three into the right-field seats, and the Yankee dynasty had begun. Heywood Broun spoke for millions of delighted fans...