Word: hocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Baseball's highest-priced performer (1960 take: $85,000 from the San Francisco Giants, some $23,000 from shaving in public), Willie Mays, 30, was crying all the way to the bank. Already into the Giants for $65,200 in salary advances and $8,641 in hock to the revenooers, the "Say Hey" center fielder faced further depredations from his estranged wife Marghuerite (who indignantly denies Mays's charge that she "goes for $400 shoes and $8,000 mink coats"). Moaned Willie's attorney, who was fighting to un-sweeten Marghuerite's separation...
...runs a third-rate hock shop can be excused for taking a crabbed view of humanity. To his barred window, clutching their appalling array of tattered goods, come junkies, alkies, homosexuals, whores and pimps, as well as the faceless poor. Reflecting on his part in these endless, trivial transactions. Sol Nazerman, the Harlem pawnbroker, "became filled with the idea that he was building a tower of junk, struggling and draining himself to amass nothing . . . For him the core of life was there in all its reality: brutal, wretched, and grasping...
...instructor at the University of Cracow; the Nazis packed him off to Belsen and Dachau, where his wife and daughter were murdered. Surviving somehow, Sol escaped to the U.S. and prosperity; but at 45 he is a grey echo of a man. By day he shuffles about the dusty hock shop that he manages for a tax-wise hoodlum: by night, at the home he shares with his sister's family, he listens stolidly to the family's spoiled and petulant quarrels. On Sundays, he sits in the backyard, reading Chekhov and Tolstoy in Russian...
...COLORADO--"It is a hopeless situation. I guess should be done about it." St. Lawrence hock- George Menard after his humiliating 12-2 defeat by in the final game of the tournament here last month. , whose team lost to Michi-, 13 to 3, in the same last year, was referring annual East-West collegiate showdown--a one-sided the statistics show...
...afford to take chances. But that explanation is only partly true. Off-Broadway, where production is still comparatively cheap, is proving itself only slightly more original. Laudably enough, it is offering classics and off-beat imports, but last week only one U.S. original was on the boards, Robert D. Hock's stunning Civil War work, Borak. The real trouble seems to be the failing imagination of U.S. playwrights...