Word: elgin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adapted for domestic use a bulky device formerly found only in restaurants, which lowered a slice of bread, grilled it, and at just the right moment popped it up, golden brown (or black), bringing sales of untold millions over the next 39 years; of a heart attack; in Elgin...
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...they have nobody to match the point-scoring potential of the Los Angeles Lakers' Jerry West and Elgin Baylor, the playmaking abilities of Cincinnati's Oscar Robertson and Jerry Lucas. Out of the Celtics' starting five, only one player - Guard Tom Sanders - is under 30. Except for Forward Sam Jones, who has been averaging 25 points a game, the Celtics do not have a man among the top 15 scorers in the National Basketball Association. Center Russell, four times the league's Most Valuable Player, has been complaining of a mysterious stomach ailment. Forward Tommy Heinsohn...
Died. Horace Elgin Dodge Jr., 66, only son of the founder of Dodge Motor Co.; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Detroit. A career sportsman, Dodge dispensed large chunks of the family fortune for souped-up speedboats and five wives (five children) who consumed more than $2 million in alimony and settlements. Sure to come: a battle royal over Dodge's will, which declares itself "null and void" if he is survived by his mother, now 93. Stakes: $2,000,000 in Dodge's personal funds, and eventually $65 million now in Mamma's name...
...affluence of a personal foundry came to Capralos late. During his student days in Paris at the Grande Chaumiere, he was so poor that he filched sketching pads. Accused of the theft by an English art student, Capralos threw back the Elgin marbles: "You rich Englishmen have stolen the whole frieze of the Parthenon! How dare you protest when a poor Greek takes a sheet of your paper?" During World War II, Capralos made his own warring frieze a 135-ft. by 33-ft. monument, in plaster relief, to the Greek repulse of the Italian army in the Pindus Mountains...