Word: flips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Calvo, a real rock of a junior, shows marked ability to pass while running in either direction. His targets may be any of the backs--all fast--including reserve halfback Billy Scazzero; or he may flip to the likes of Captain Vic Pujo (from Lynn) and Dick Cliggott, the starting ends...
...trouble with the first date was that Tom had his clothes on. On the second occasion, explained Barbara, "I see him at the Sunset Plaza swimming hole. He's in a pair of bathing trunks. Honey, I just take one look at him and positively flip." She sighed. "More fun than a barrel of monkeys...
...front to tell medics how to handle brain cases, teaching them to go easy on morphine, so that any complications could be spotted easily. He devised a system of sandwiching paraplegics between two padded litters so that their position could be safely changed by a single quick flip, thus avoiding blood poisoning from bed sores...
...Three drinks later the prospective host says, 'I'll get hold of Boodie and Mops and Winkles and Poopie, and you see if you can snaffle Cookie and Flip.' (The English go in for repulsive nicknames like this. It seems to have resulted from parents naming all their children Nigel and Diana, which, God knows, is reason enough.) Ten minutes later, the entire group is clustered around the bar gloomily tossing down whiskies and longing for the good old prewar days when bars stayed open till midnight...
Though Cleveland's famed sluggers, Luke Easter, Flip Rosen and Larry Doby, were wallowing in a batting slump, and the team was hitting a dismal .265 (sixth place), Lopez was getting above-standard performances from Pitchers Mike Garcia (16-7), Bob Lemon (13-9) and Early Wynn (12-11), as well as from lefthanded Reliefer Lou Brissie (59 hits in 74 innings). But the man who was really cracking the whip in the Cleveland pennant drive was Righthander Bob Feller. The onetime boy wonder, who has never had a losing season since he came to the majors, was having...