Word: fans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee of the National Collegiate Athletic Association this month will debate a far tougher measure: total loss of eligibility for a man who has played in any league that pays any of its players. In the meantime, Denver is looking forward to another championship this year. Shrugs one Denver fan: "All I care about is that our Canadians beat every one else's Canadians...
...masterful in style and content, Storyteller Dinesen (Seven Gothic Tales, Anecdotes of Destiny) pursues gothic romance in preference to realism, the aristocratic spirit above democratic camaraderie, fate before fact. She is Denmark's finest living writer and one of the world's best. No less a fan than Ernest Hemingway told his 1958 Nobel Prize audience that the award should have gone to Isak Dinesen...
...York won on the very same play. On another occasion, with his team trailing 38-7, a blizzard howling, and only 20 minutes left on the clock, Tripucka led Denver to four touchdowns and a 38-38 tie. Teams traded touchdowns with such fervor that one old-line N.F.L. fan cracked: "The team that wins the toss wins the game...
Only now and then does he get a laughable line ("Are you a moron?" "No, I am a Catholic."). Only one, when Bing Crosby mistakes him for a fan and casually autographs the tortilla that he is holding, does the unimpressionable Cantinflas get a line that is unforgettable. He looks amazed at the tortilla, stares indignantly at Crosby, then inquires: "Why you poot eenk on my lonch...
Arthur Goldberg, 52. Goldberg is skilled at the Cuban dice game of carabino, a collector, in a modest way, of the works of Picasso, Matisse and Shahn, a gluttonous reader of books of all kinds, and a loyal fan of the Washington Redskins. He is also the leading labor lawyer in the U.S., a man who has had a major voice in every significant labor-management decision of the past decade, but who has never been a legitimate member of a labor union. As Secretary of Labor, he may have to make some difficult decisions, such as enforcing Taft-Hartley...