Word: hit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California's Governors eventually get hung in the state capitol in Sacramento, and Portrait Subject Goodwin Knight, 62, California's Republican helmsman from 1953 until this year, knew that he would be no exception. From the start he failed to hit it off with Minnesota Artist Cameron Booth, picked by a nonpartisan art committee from more than 100 painters to immortalize Goodie in oil for a $3,000 fee. Last week Knight saw the result for the first time. His reaction: anguish. His main objections were to the color of his suit (brown, which he never wears...
...then, with fame sweetening the air, the world champion went about the business of cashing in. Two days after his homecoming, Ingo hit the road on an exhibition tour aimed at earning $50,000, climbed into the ring for a few friendly rounds with brother Rolf, an amateur boxer. At Osthammar, some 3,000 fans crowded in (at $1 a head) to watch in vain for The Punch, chuckle at the champ's cries ("Throw me some mosquito oil"), and cheer happily when the referee solemnly declared him the winner...
Last week, racing on the springy new track at Zurich as a member of Cologne's A.S.V. track club, Lauer was first out of the blocks in the 110-meter high hurdles. Bending far forward as he cleared the barriers, then snapping his body erect as he hit the cinders, Grasshopper Lauer was all alone at the tape, gasped in astonishment : "It was like having hold of a truck...
...circus held him for only half a year; then his Wanderjahre began for fair. Naples, Tunis, Casablanca, Paris, Rotterdam, Hamburg-he hit them all, playing a guitar and singing the hillbilly songs he had learned from his U.S. Army buddies. Between 1951 and 1953 he rode a Finnish tanker from Odessa to Mexico to the Far East. Once, he remembers, his ship got to the U.S. where he won an amateur-night contest singing Spanish songs he had learned in Mexico. "I sang Mexican songs in the U.S. and hillbilly songs in Mexico," he explains. "No use pushing your luck...
...time he got back to Germany in 1953, Manfred Petz had changed his name to Freddy Quinn. He began to play nightclubs and pick up TV and radio spots, then he recorded Heimweh. "The people," says he, "discovered me." Freddy has already made another record. Heimatlos (Homeless), which has hit the 1,000,000 mark, has still another, Die Gitarre und das Meer (The Guitar and the Sea), that is climbing fast and was released in the U.S. last week. He has three hit movies behind him and a turn-of-the-century Hamburg mansion to show...