Word: gumming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Squinch. Even Carew's vices serve a pragmatic purpose. He is fond of wrapping a hunk of Red Man tobacco in two sticks of Doublemint gum and popping the wad into his mouth. The critical mass bulges his cheek, giving him-he swears-a better view of the incoming pitch. "When it's tucked in there, it makes my skin tight. When your skin is tight like that, you can't squinch your eye, which means more of your eye is on the ball. It's important not to squinch when you're up there...
...Ultimate Gumball. Chewing gum is no novelty, either. Only Alan Silverstone, 35, has made it so. He sees himself as a real-life Willie Wonka. He even dresses the part of the fictional candymaker, donning velvet tuxedo, ruffled shirt, red velvet bow tie, top hat and cane. It seems a bizarre role for a onetime Wall Street investment banker with degrees in law, business administration and economics. But Uncle Al, the Kiddies' Pal, as he thinks of himself, is not just living out a childhood fantasy. The owner of Oakland's U.S. Chewing Gum Manufacturing Co. since...
Either someone's playing a joke on me or my name isn't Simon Gourdine. Was that really Doctah J. on the tube Sunday in the opening game of the NBA finals? You bet your Ken Hubbs bubble-gum card it was--and how embarrassing is that? Doesn't Commissioner Larry O'Brien ever give up trying to get his name in the papers? You know basketball has reached a sorry state of affairs when the NBA champion is crowned after the running of the annually rain-shortened Indy 500. By the way, go with Philly over Portland...
...contract. The profits that once went to the owners are now rerouted to the players, the source of that income. The fans, the public, and the media must accept baseball as the full-fledged entertainment business it has become, a business controlled by the rulers of hamburger, whiskey, chewing gum, lumber, and brewery empires. Fans should not condemn the players for demanding and receiving a larger measure of the revenue they themselves generate. As Judge Frank said in 1949, "Only the totalitarian-minded will believe that high pay excuses virtual slavery...
...Love and Death. Aside from the mutual jitters, it was a case of opposites attracting: he was a stereotypical New Yorker and she was a model Southern Californian. "When I first met her," Allen remembers, "she was a real hayseed, the kind who would chew eight sticks of gum at a time. I talked to her on the phone once when she was in California, and she was about to drive to the supermarket-which was across the street, literally." Allen pauses and then emphasizes his point: "Very California...