Word: cougars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barracuda BOOM and cougar BOOM...
...until he cradles the ball in his huge hands does the poker-faced Negro come alive. Then, graceful and cunning as a cougar, Elgin Baylor begins to roam for the Minneapolis Lakers. His hands flicker with the slick skill of a shell-game operator. His dribble is a rapid rat-a-tattoo inches off the floor. Smoothly, surely, Baylor prowls through the elbowing surge under the hoop to nail a Laker with a pinpoint pass, or rises from the floor as though projected to loop a lazy shot through the basket...
...each Saturday morning episode (11 a.m., E.S.T.) is a plain little moral. It may be a homely little philosophical truth or a wholesome primer on civil defense, bicycle safety, wildlife preservation or freedom of the press. Last week Fury's young friends ran into trouble with a predatory cougar because they had not completed their rifle safety course. But faithful as ever, Fury, a . beautiful black stallion, frightened the critter away...
...animal-against-the-wicked-world theme most touchingly. Michael Ray is completely fetching as the youth and he is supported by a most competent cast. The air and spirit of the bullring is handled freshly and dramatically, as is an absolutely chilling battle between the black bull and a cougar...
...radio program between Woolf in a Boston broadcasting studio and Pollard in his hospital room. I gave Pollard, whose leg was in traction, a carefully prepared script, but he dropped it on the floor at a crucial point of the broadcast . . . Woolf had just asked The Cougar how he should ride Seabiscuit in the match. 'Why, Georgie boy,' Pollard ad-libbed, 'just ride your usual race. Get left at the post and louse it up from there on in.' Woolf and Seabiscuit won despite Pollard's advice...