Word: guys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief varmint of all, as Jake saw it, was a brash little guy with a quick trigger finger. His name was Bobby Riggs, twice world's professional tennis champion, and he was always yammering that Bobby Riggs was the world's greatest tennis star. Jake guessed he would have to go gunning for Bobby some...
Winning Shots. Kramer is always certain that he will win. His attitude: "When a guy runs up a lead on me, I'm surprised. ... I think he's either playing over his head, or lucky." This kind of confidence has to be acquired early and then be cultivated. Kramer won his first big tournament (the National Boys' crown) at 15. Frank Parker was a winner at 14, Riggs at 13, Budge...
July 26-Seven Protestant clergymen and a physician left New York's La-Guardia airport. They were: William Howard Melish, associate rector of Brooklyn's Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, chairman of the American-Soviet Friendship Council and longtime friend of the Communist Party; Dr. Guy Emery Shipler, anti-Roman Catholic editor of The Churchman, a gulliberal who says he is not a Communist fellow traveler; the Rev. Claude C. Williams of Birmingham, Ala., director of the Peoples' Institute of Applied Religion; George Walker Buckner Jr., editor of the World Call of the Disciples of Christ; Phillips...
With a bone-rattling roar, seven low-slung speedboats charged down Long Island's Jamaica Bay to start the first of three 30-mile heats in the International Gold Cup race. Most eyes were on 45-year-old Bandleader Guy Lombardo, the defending champion, half obscured by his helmet and Mae West as he hunched in the cockpit of his 600-h.p., red-gold-&mahogany Tempo VI. More than a famous name and expensive pressagentry made Lombardo the favorite. Other speedboat drivers had to admit that he was "a hot chauffeur" with a well-balanced boat that should have...
...best type of load for an ed on the heat is a rather innocuous one that raises the question, "What the Hell is this guy leading up to?" For an example of the innocuous, What-the-Hell, type of lead, reference should be made to the first line of this epic. As for the remainder of the editorial following the lead, it was felt that there was not much to be said--not in print. However, if you are really interested in learning something significant about the hot weather, it has been reliably asserted by the oldest inhabitant, "It really...