Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the rest of the Browns got in their licks (Ernie Green scored one TD, and Lou Groza kicked two field goals), the game belonged to Brown. In all, he carried the ball 20 times for 156 yds. That boosted his 1965 rushing total to 1,064 yds.-almost twice as much as his closest competitor, Philadelphia's Timmy Brown (no kin), and more than eight of the 14 N.F.L. teams have gained on the ground all season. Jimmy caught three passes for an additional 36 yds., and his three TDs gave him 84 points so far this year...
...terms of pure style, the oldtimer whom Brown most resembles is the legendary Johnny Blood, whose real name is John McNally, and whose pro career spanned 15 seasons between 1925 and 1939, when writers could still get away with calling a football field a gridiron. McNally played for the Green Bay Packers and coached the Pittsburgh Steelers; now in his 60s, he spends his time "meditating," and Captain Ahab of Moby Dick is one of his favorite subjects. "Ahab," explains McNally, "had the courage of ignorance, comparable to the courage of a fullback playing his first season of professional football...
...dignity of Britain's stately homes. Hollywood Writer-Director Andrew Stone's handiwork, billed as a black comedy, hues to the popular misnomer for any movie that dares to flaunt some inept waggery or mishandle a corpse. Secret obviously deserves a description of another color. "Green-sickly" might...
...MARBLE FAUN AND A GREEN BOUGH by William Faulkner. 118 pages. Random House...
...print for several decades, they made an arrestingly gruesome twosome. The Marble Faun, written when Faulkner was 21, is a dollop of schoolboyish Shelley-shallying in which Pan and Philomel pipe and warble, and every other word is ah or ye or 'neath or hark. A Green Bough, published when he was 36 and should have known better, seems on the contrary the work of a village Eliot...