Word: game
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spark. His courtship was in keeping with his background. One night at a card party he met bright-eyed young Jeanne Renault. They were partners at charlemagne (a four-handed game played with 34 cards), and soon Jeanne told her friends that the shy young lawyer was mon idéal. Her friends warned her that it would not be easy to catch St. Laurent, a studious chap who spent most of his evenings with his law books. But when Louis started corresponding a short time later, everyone agreed: "C'est l'étincelle [It's the spark...
...Dame Football Coach Frank Leahy, 41, urgently called two doctors to his Indiana home. They arrived to find that Leahy, working by candlelight, had already safely delivered the Leahy's sixth child, fourth boy ("a fullback, I think"). The coach's critique: "If you think a football game is exciting, you should have been at our house last night...
...rubber game, Brooklyn's big Negro righthander, Don Newcombe, silenced Cardinal bats (6-0) with the help of outfielders who chased fly balls like men on bicycles and made "impossible" catches. One smash from Musial's bat would have been a triple if Outfielder Luis Olmo had not bounded high into the air against the left-center-field wall and made the catch-of-the-month...
...Stop Falling Hair?" They are a hard bunch to live with when they lose. Last month, after losing a tough game in Philadelphia, a couple of Cardinals made the mistake of singing Moonlight and Roses while the team was riding the bus to the station. Said Eddie Dyer sharply: "If you've got to sing, wait until I get off this bus. I don't see anything to sing about." Things were different after they had taken a game from Cincinnati and learned that Brooklyn had blown one to Boston. They gave Doc Weaver, the club trainer...
Almost as soon as Guest Conductor Antal Dorati signaled for the first crashing ta-ta-ta-dah (from Beethoven's Symphony No. 5), then some muted lullaby music, the musicians began to look like small boys getting into a new game that was going to be fun. Most of the instruments got their chance to shine. Boomed the narrator, Nelson Olmsted: "First I invented the flute [deep blue solo]. Next, the oboe [etc.] . . . But that wasn't all I needed. I had to have -Sharps and flats and pizzicato, Molto Lento and staccato, Treble clef, ritard, repeat, Allegro...