Word: gil
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Making it tough for the panelists is the job of Producer Gil Fates, a sort of inverted Diogenes, who must first find "people everyone has heard of but no body has seen," but whose even harder search is for people adept at lying. Fates keeps enormous files of newspaper clips about odd characters, and complete cards on everyone who has ever entered his office...
Still, Brown must be considered a fairly formidable opponent, for it possesses in junior Frank Finney the league's "best quarterback" (on the testimony of John Yovicsin), and also a 230-pound tackle named Gil Robertshaw, who was rated all-Ivy League last year...
...point edge over the Lions in a game which should determine whether or not the Brown squad will be able to challenge seriously for the Ivy League Title. The Bruins have 16 returning lettermen from last year's squad which finished fifth in the League, led by captain Gil Robertshaw, an all-Ivy tackle last fall, and they have hopes for pressing Princeton in the race for the championship...
...This week Cleveland's Pitching Ace Herb Score will put on his uniform, work out his talented left arm for the first time since May 7, when he was struck on the right eye by a bullet line-drive hit by the Yankees' Gil McDougald. For a while doctors had feared for Score's sight. But last week Dr. Charles Thomas made an encouraging prognosis: "My reports on Score are good. I don't believe he will have any trouble with depth perception...
...faced Batter Johnny Logan and threw as if discretion demanded a duster. But Shortstop Johnny failed to duck. Drysdale's high hard one hit him in the back. Once more, one word led to another and Shortstop Logan steamed toward the pitcher's mound. Dodger First Baseman Gil Hodges started for Logan, Milwaukee Coach Johnny Riddle started for Hodges, and the fight was on. By American League standards the affair was a flop, lasted a mere five minutes. Out of the game went Logan and Drysdale. For his belligerence Logan drew a $100 fine; despite his beanball Drysdale...