Word: croppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Andy, a fortnight ago, had won the 1952 winter Olympics' first gold medal when she skimmed flawlessly down the giant slalom course. Then, in the downhill race, Andy came a cropper, skidding to two bad spills. Such jarring tumbles might well shatter the nerve of an ordinary competitor, but slim-hipped, 130-lb. Andy was in high spirits last week as she inspected the special (i.e., shorter) slalom course for her final race. Andy skittered around like a frisky colt as Coach Herb Jocum and Husband Dave Lawrence plotted her descent. "Gee," said Andy with a carefree grin, "this...
...year's novels from Italy. The two best were by Alberto Moravia: Conjugal Love, which dealt with a nasty marriage conflict without becoming nasty, and The Conformist, the case history of a weakling whose weakness made him a Fascist. Carlo Levi (Christ Stopped at Eboli) came a cropper with The Watch, a sympathetic but unfocused look at his postwar land, but Giuseppe Berto followed an uneven first novel (The Sky Is Red) with The Brigand, the story of an Italian Robin Hood which exposed the despair of ordinary people with a fine mixture of candor and sympathy...
...young man named Errett Lobban Cord. By the time he was 39, the ex-Los Angeles used-car salesman had built an empire that ranged through motors (Auburn, Checker Cab, Cord), ships (New York Shipbuilding), aircraft (Stinson, Lycoming engines) and airlines (American Airways). But in 1937, Cord came a cropper. The SEC charged him with manipulating the stock of Checker Cab and Auburn, and he sold most of his empire to a group headed by Banker Victor Emanuel...
...most hopeful young hopefuls of U.S. tennis-Dick Savitt, 24, and Tony Trabert, 20-both came a cropper last week in the Eastern Grass Court championships, at Orange, N.J. In each case an old tennis hand was the obstacle that sent the youngsters arsy-versy: Gardnar Mulloy, 37, and Billy Talbert...
...Square Garden (TIME, Jan. 29 et seq.), Illinois' Bradley University was as horrified as any of them. Last spring Bradley staged its own private invitation tournament, to make sure that its team, known as the "Pride of Peoria," kept uncontaminated. Last week Peoria's pride came a cropper. Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan announced that eight Bradley players, including All-America Gene Melchiorre, had been hand in glove with gamblers. Also involved: four members of Toledo University's team. ¶ For 13 years a group of alleged musicians, calling themselves the Dodger Symphony Band, have tootled happily...