Word: dipper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dipper himself, the man who supervises the selection of all Bunnies everywhere, is Keith Hefner (brother), a rather frightening looking man (see picture) who turned out to be a sheep in wolf's clothing. Hefner smiled a lot and laughed a little and begged the unsuccessful aspirants not to get upset. "If I have to tell you to leave, please don't punch me or kick me or cry," he pleaded...
...great talent: Russell's is defense, Elgin Baylor's is shooting, Bob Cousy's is setting up plays and passing. Chamberlain does almost everything, better than anyone else. He is the pros' fiercest rebounder, and his shooting repertory includes such inimitable specialties as the "Dipper Dunk" (in which he simply stretches up and lays the ball in the basket), the "Stuff Shot" (in which he jumps up and rams the ball through the net from above), and the "Fadeaway Jump"-a delicate, marvelously coordinated push shot from 15 ft. away that defensive men literally cannot block...
...Didn't Work." With Robertson in the lineup, Cincinnati was a run-and-shoot team that delighted fans with its hipper-dipper attack-but never won a national championship. When Jucker took over, Cincinnati abruptly became deliberate and defense-minded. "I asked myself where I was going to make up all those points," he says. "I decided that maybe if we gave up only 40 points a game, we wouldn't need to score much. But I knew I was asking for trouble. If it didn't work, I was dead." It worked so well that Jucker...
...dedication to their mission. But in other ways they are as separate as the seven stars of the Big Dipper. Malcolm Scott Carpenter may well be the least skilled pilot among them. But he makes up for that with will power and a compelling personality. He is probably the most popular of the astronauts...
...second biggest stockholder) to swell his collection of marriage licenses to four. For his latest fling at matrimony, Billy chose a familiar partner: ex-Showgirl Joyce Mathews, 42. to whom he was previously married from 1956 to 1959. (His first two wives: the late Fanny Brice and Big Dipper Eleanor Holm.) For Joyce, even a nuptial doubleheader was no novelty, two of her four earlier flounces to the altar having been made with Milton Berle...