Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some call him a gambler who would try anything to run up a score. Others call him a mercenary who ran out on the University of Washington to peddle his talents in Minnesota. But last week, as he led the Gophers against his old school, Minnesota's curly-haired quarterback, Bobby Cox, 23, found winning so simple that he seldom had to gamble. His ball handling seemed more magical than mercenary. He called signals so swiftly, his team peeled off as many as four plays a minute, had its first touchdown in only six plays. When Bobby & Co. stopped...
...Bobby to Minneapolis to sample the pleasures of life in a Big Ten football factory, but instead, Bobby moved to Seattle to play football for the University of Washington. By the end of his sophomore season, he was first-string quarterback, already building a reputation as a triple-threat gambler. He could run like a bulldozer and pass like a pro. He specialized in exasperating his coaches and exciting his fans by calling for such outrageous maneuvers as a third-down pass with only 1 yd. to go for a touchdown...
...French of Mount Vernon, N.Y. had two consuming passions-flying and gambling. As a bombardier-navigator, French was skillful and courageous: during World War II, slim, alert Airman French flew 35 missions in B-17s, in Korea he logged five more missions in B-29s. But as a gambler, French was inept and intemperate. Since his assignment in June 1956 to a B-36 crew at the Strategic Air Command's Ramey AFB in Puerto Rico, George French, grown fat and dissipated, had piled up almost $10,000 in losses, gone in debt to banks and loan companies...
...elbow of Nikita Khrushchev, as he toured East Germany this summer, appeared a new traveling partner, sallow, stoop-shouldered, scowling. Unlike the previous sidekick, Bulganin, who looked like an amiable riverboat gambler living it up, this saturnine little man seemed to shrink from the speechmaking and the public panoply, the peculiar rites and duties of the proletarian potentates who parade about holding durbars in subject states like 19th century monarchs, while talking over their shoulders to the press like 20th century pols. Yet the world noted, as it was meant to, that wherever the Russians went in East Berlin, Deputy...
...rich town of Bartlesville, Okla. (pop. 28,000) a new type of commercial well blew in last week. It was the most ambitious test to date of pay-in-the-parlor TV. From the Lyric Theater, a double feature (The Pajama Game and Mississippi Gambler) flashed from noon to midnight into 300 living rooms via coaxial cable, thus presumably avoiding FCC supervision...