Word: game
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty Questions (Sat. 8 p.m., Mutual). A good parlor game...
...wanted no "candy and cake" atmosphere, refused to allow an ice show in the coliseum or a professional football game in the L.S.U. stadium. He frowned on the university's traditional brand of student election campaigns, with their bathing beauties, free shoeshines, jazz bands, fire engines and acrobats. "I hope I am the last person to take the joy out of going to college," he told his students, "but just what sort of a university do you want...
...nothing ever gave him more excitement than what was, for Cliff, the newly discovered horse game. He bred Old Rockport himself (and named him after his favorite Texas golf course). After Old Rockport won the $100,000 Santa Anita Derby last winter (TIME, Feb. 28), Mooers got a transcription of the announcer calling the race; he still listens to it entranced, tears rolling down his cheeks...
...When the game ended with his Giants on the losing end of a 15-2 rout, Durocher left his coaching box and started the long, crossfield trek to the clubhouse in centerfield. At the same time, fans poured onto the field, heading for the outfield exit. Out in Texas-league country, Leo and Fred Boysen crossed paths. A few seconds later, Boysen was picking himself up from the turf and Durocher was walking away flanked by Second Baseman Bill Rigney, No. 18, and Fred Fitzsimmons, No. 6 (see cut). Leo Durocher was off the sport pages and on Page...
...apartment janitor. But he had sublimated his ambition to be a baseball star into a desire to make $1,000,000 before he was 30. He also hoped one day to own the New York Yankees, or at least to throw out the first ball at an opening game. (He made...