Word: dan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sportswriter who never covered anything more exciting than home-town boxing bouts for Texas' San Antonio News, young (29) Dan Cook nursed a Technicolored dream: to stop the presses for a Page One beat. One night last week-as he later told the story-an anonymous phone call promised the big chance. The caller tipped him to "the biggest robbery pulled since the Brink's job"-the theft of $200,000 from a safe in Houston, some 200 miles to the east. The voice even gave Cook the address and automobile license number of the robber...
Major General Dan Sickles may or may not have won the Battle of Gettysburg (he thought he did), but he was an American who lived as if he never cared where his next square melee was coming from. On one leg (he lost his right leg to one of Longstreet's cannonballs on the second day of the battle), he lived more than most men could a) on two legs and b) in two lifetimes...
Earning the Title. After Appomattox, all should have been an anticlimax. But Dan Sickles went on to be Minister to Spain by appointment of President Grant. In Madrid he tried to cozen the Spanish out of Cuba without a war and earned the derisive title, "Yankee King of Spain'' by his trips to Paris to make love to the deposed Spanish Queen Isabella...
...athletes moved into fraternity houses or stayed with friends; a hastily elected committee of twelve, under Varsity End Dan Coyle, went to Crisp with an ultimatum: abolish the bed checks for athletes whose sport is not in season, grant unlimited weekend privileges, cancel the four-hour compulsory study rule. Otherwise, said the athletes, they would not go back to Friedman Hall and they would not even play for Alabama...
...made up mostly of gamblers, who are so busy losing money that they have no time to make girls. "There's no one," she sputters indignantly, "to be aloof from." That, as every moviegoer will recognize, is the cue for girl to meet boy. And the minute Dan Dailey comes scuffing onscreen with an I'11-always-be-a-boy-at-heart sort of grin that richly expresses the sham in the shamrock, Actress Charisse has plenty to be aloof from. He grabs her hand in a casino, holds it for good luck -and wins three times...