Word: crewcut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kind of playing that can change collegiate basketball from a foul-ridden melee into the exciting spectacle that it was meant to be. Only the week before, the crewcut youngster (20) had boosted the Mountaineers into the N.C.A.A. playoffs by beating George Washington University almost singlehanded. In a tense overtime period, Hot Rod had really turned it on. He fired a foul shot-and sank it-from behind his back. With time running out, he stood there, calmly chomping on his bubble gum while he twirled the ball on the tip of his banana-broad fingers. When two G.W. defenders...
George Gobel's sudden TV popularity is as baffling as a common cold: everybody gets it, but nobody can explain it. A mild-voiced, crewcut, anonymous sort of a man, he says: "The trouble with me is, people don't remember who I am. I guess I don't make a good impression. When I go to a party, nobody says hello; but when I leave, everybody says goodbye...
...face, ballyhooed as an "offbeat, low-pressure Wally Cox-Will Rogers type," was crewcut George Gobel (Sat. 10 p.m., NBC). Straining at a deadpan, Midwestern delivery ("Wai, I'll be a dirty bird"), Gobel was better at dialogue than monologue. The show's two sketches were unpretentious, underplayed and very funny...
...McLane himself sees it, it was more of a catch-up than a comeback. Seven years ago, at 15, he was a national outdoor titleholder at distances ranging from 400 to 1,500 meters. At 17, as a crewcut, prep schoolboy (Andover), he became the Olympic 1,500-meter champion. But from then on, Jimmy McLane spent a good part of his swimming time gulping the backwash of such stars as Japan's Hironoshin ("The Flying Fish") Furuhashi, Australia's Marshall and Hawaii's Ford Konno. It was not because he slowed down; the others just...
...stage in 1945 to play the lead in Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday, quit the cast during the out-of-town tryout, leaving the role (and stardom) to Judy Holliday. For Peter Pan, her first Broadway hit, she studied fencing and ballet, sheared her hair to a near crewcut, left her husky, quavery voice exactly as movie fans have always known...