Word: cy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...found it at a fire sale. Some sculptor is undoubtedly already carving a bust of him for the Hall of Fame, but Spahn does not think he is ready for the museum yet. "I'd like to win 400 games," he says. Only two pitchers-Walter Johnson and Cy Young-ever managed that. To win his 400, Spahn would need four more 20-game seasons. By then he would...
...stationed at a remote mission called Rorke's Drift successfully withstood an attack by 4,000 Zulus. The South African government, eager to see new Hollywoods springing up out of the veld, is earnestly cooperating. It has supplied soldiers, giraffes, prop men, leopards, spears-everything but phalaropes. Director Cy Enfield also called on Dinizulu, paramount chief of the Zulus, and Dinizulu came through with 4,000 of his finest, plus a faultless selection of his most nubile maidens for a bare-breasted scene in which the Zulu warriors on the eve of battle are given the sort of sendoff...
...backstroke, only two minutes later, was too much even for Pringle and was won by Graef and Cy Hornsby...
...Believe in You sequence, he pops into the theater at 10:39, and if anything is slipshod. Burrows will be crashing around backstage making a disturbance at 11:15, perhaps calling for a morning rehearsal. Similar sneak visits are frequently made by Choreographer Bob Fosse, Producers Cy Feuer and Ernie Martin. Says Pressagent Merle Debuskey: "It's like Big Brother...
...serious pressure for Malayan independence, he began training local men to take a hand in plantation management. At great cost, he pioneered the development of new grafting techniques and agricultural hormones that have produced higher-yielding rubber trees. By sharing his developments with the official Malayan rubber research agen cy and, along with other rubber planters, helping to finance it, he is now sparking the government's drive to help hundreds of small growers replant with high-yield trees. Last year Sir John's trees produced up to 1,000 Ibs. of rubber per acre...