Word: gamecock
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...teams stood, clearly the best in the nation. Third-ranked South Carolina, the CWS runner-up to Texas in 1975, was the only team to have survived the early rounds without a loss. With a bundle of major league prospects, incredible team speed and good pitching dictated the Gamecock strategy...
...recording hours of chicken talk, Dr. Baeumer would play the tapes back, selecting examples of clear-cut chicken "sentences" that could be related to records or photographs of specific actions. Collecting prime examples of all the basic sentences took about four years. Best performers were breeds with strains of gamecock in them. "Chickens with fighting blood," says Dr. Baeumer, "are better because they have more temperament...
...whose scene is New York and whose subject is reform. Unlike Fiorello!, this yarn of a clergyman of the '90s crusading against Manhattan's vast red-light district and colliding with its venal police force proves pretty heavy going. The high-principled minister is no such fighting gamecock as La Guardia, and Maurice Evans makes musicomedy wear a stiff collar where Tom Bosley fit the Little Flower like a glove...
...exclamation point that gives it the look of an Italian war cry, Fiorello! matches up with La Guardia, telling the story of New York City's Little Flower from the time he first ran for Congress until his second and successful bid for mayor. The irascibly humane fighting gamecock, whose career, as a matter of fact, has something of the air of a war cry, displays in the theater, as he did on the platform, a naturally theatrical personality. The period through which he moves (about 1916 to 1933) has a persistently gaudy glamour. And out of a dynamic...
Died. Beniamino Gigli, 67, famed lyric tenor, an Italian shoemaker's son who took over Caruso's roles at the Metropolitan Opera in 1920, sang and acted with a peasant's gusto ("as naturally as a gamecock fights"); of pneumonia; in Rome. Refusing to take a salary cut during the Depression (other Met stars did), Gigli huffed off to Mussolini's Italy, predicted "something like a civil war" for the U.S. (he later denied it all), sang for top Germans during the war ("What would you have done?"). In a triumphant 1955 return...