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Word: fenton (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...devoted men, the mass game of modern football is still, at its best, the skill of one individual practicing the ancient and fundamental art of the sport: kicking the ball. No man in the nation knows more about this art than a husky, hustling Episcopal priest named Arnold A. Fenton, 55, chaplain at New York Military Academy in upstate Cornwall, who has developed some of the game's finest punters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Punting Parson | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...punt isn't just a last-ditch defensive play," argues Father Fenton. "It's an offensive weapon. A good quick kick puts a team on its heels, and you're likely to get the ball back right away on a fumble or a blocked punt. Same way with a 'coffin-corner kick' [a kick that goes out of bounds within the 10-yd. line]. They're both fine short-term investments. You'll get that ball back with interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Punting Parson | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...Glass of Tequila. Fenton announced that he had indeed planned to rob the Americans, but that the job had been carried out by two local tourist guides. Quickly arrested, they protested innocence. Then came word that the bodies on the beach were those of two unidentified auto-accident victims. In jail Fenton was interviewed by a U.S. newsman, who gave him a glass of tequila to calm his nerves. Fenton broke the glass, slashed his wrists. Mercilessly, police grilled the remorseful travel agent far into the night-until at last he broke down, confessed in full. At week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Guided Tour | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...damage to its booming tourism, Acapulco called in the Federal Security Police. As day after day passed with no word, Mrs. Hallock's distraught sister, Mrs. Edith Hoffman, arrived from New York. She promptly revealed that the missing couple's good friend in Acapulco had been Luis Fenton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Guided Tour | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

Frightened by the uproar, Fenton had meanwhile buried the jewels beneath a palm tree on a lonely beach. Questioned, he claimed steadfastly that he had hardly known the vacationers, said that as far as he remembered Mrs. Hallock had never displayed any jewelry more flamboyant than a trivial topaz ring. As Mrs. Hoffman tore Fenton's story to shreds, police grilled Waiter Rios, whose share of the loot had been only $200 in cash. Rios admitted that Fenton had hired him to help rob the couple. On the 17th day Fenton lost his nerve; news had arrived that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Guided Tour | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

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