Word: foxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SAFETIES. Tim Fox, Ohio State, 6 ft., 186 lbs.; and Kurt Knoff, Kansas, 6 ft. 3 in., 200 lbs. With "exceptional range, good hands, and great ball sense," Fox is the cornerstone of a secondary that helped the Ohio State defense limit opponents to 7.2 points per game. Knoff, despite a knee injury, is valuable to the pros because "he likes...
...lost its refrain "Into men, into men." "When we stood at boyhood's gate" emerged unisexually as "childhood's gate." Elsewhere, however, sexism yet sounds hi full voice. At Princeton football games, for example, "her sons" still give "three cheers for Old Nassau." Princeton Recording Secretary Fred Fox says that if "sons" goes, so must the preceding "her." Old Guardsperson Fox vows he will fight to the end against calling Princeton...
Died. Jacob Nelson Fox, 47, pepperpot second baseman who was the American League's Most Valuable Player in 1959 when he led the Chicago White Sox to their first league championship in 40 years; of skin cancer; in Baltimore. With the White Sox from 1950, "Nellie" Fox made his reputation as a player who liked to hit with an old-fashioned milk-bottle-shaped bat, chew a giant wad of tobacco, and hang a red bandana from the hip pocket of his uniform. Nicknamed "Mighty Mite," the diminutive Fox led the American League in most seasons (twelve) with...
...wants to get fresh, it has freshman Marc Hetnik (center) and John Fox (left wing) on the third line, and fifth defenseman Jack O'Callahan, out of Boston Latin...
...were created for." So observed Ogden Nash, and as if in agreement, Mercer Mayer has produced Two More Moral Tales (Four Winds; $3.50). No adult is needed to explain these textless jokes about pigs who put on elaborate evening wear and then head for mud, or about a venal fox who sells fur coats that are still alive. The Chicken's Child, by Margaret A. Hartelius (Doubleday; $4.95) is similarly pictorial. A chicken accidentally hatches an alligator egg. The green baby thereupon eats corn, pies, wash-tubs and tractors, yet still manages to win himself an honored place...