Word: gridiron
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...Trembling." Ever since the President decided on the spur of the moment to drop in on the Gridiron Club dinner last month, Washington has not quite known just where he will turn up next. He unexpectedly stayed for Mrs. Gandhi's black-tie dinner at the Indian embassy. Later in the week he popped over to a United Service Organizations dinner for Bob Hope at the Washington Hilton, presented the comedian with a plaque commending him for his entertainment of U.S. servicemen. "It's nice to be here in Washington," said Hope, "or, as the Republicans call...
Washington's Gridiron show was a gasser, but hardly worth the hangover it cost Runyonesque Rabelaisian Toots Shor, 62, who had lumbered down from his Manhattan diner for the party. Packing up the day after, big Toots tripped on a hotel carpet, performed a dive of a high degree of difficulty and belted his 250-lb. bulk down onto the floor...
...there they were last week, the Brooklyn Eagles and the New Haven Sentinels, playing for the title in the dead of winter in just about the unlikeliest stadium imaginable: the dining room of the Fairfield (Conn.) Motor Inn. And on a gridiron that was precisely 1 ft. 7½ in. long and 1 ft. 2½ in. wide...
...awfully easy to pick on Ronald Reagan, and I might get to feeling sorry for him, if I weren't convinced that he possesses a masochist's love of suffering. Just look at the evidence. Back on the gridiron, Reagan had "a collection of the largest purplish black bruises possible. More than once I must have been a walking coagulation." Still, he reminisces, "those were the happiest times of my life." In politics, Reagan found himself "misrepresented, cursed, vilified, denounced and libeled. Yet it was by far the most fascinating part of my life...
...middle distances and mile, McCurdy relies heavily on young blood. Former freshman stars Jeff Huvelle and Dave McKelvey both loom dangerous in the 600. Junior Sam Robinson, fresh from the gridiron, could go in either the 600 or the dash...