Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though he gained plenty of ground in filmland since leaving football (eight pictures so far), Jim Brown, 32, once the terror of the N.F.L., was thrown for a loss after a scrimmage in Hollywood. Investigating reports of loud screaming in Brown's apartment, two deputies were blocked at the door by the 6-ft. 2-in., 225-lb. fullback. "If you're coming in, you're going to have to go over me," snarled Brown and, said the deputies, straight-armed one officer seven feet back into a wall. Police reinforcements soon overcame Brown's defense...
...victory, Schuster was supposed to receive an American flag and $1,000-which, had he later invested it prudently (perhaps in automobile stock), could have generated thousands more today. He got only the flag, and when Hollywood in 1965 filmed its version of The Great Race, he suffered the additional indignity of seeing Tony Curtis play the hero. Last week the New York Times announced that it would at long last present Schuster with his grand prix of $1,000. Now 95, totally blind, Schuster has no regrets. "In my lifetime," he says, "I have seen the automobile change from...
...tonight has made baseball history by pitching his sixth straight shutout, a 5-0 masterpiece against the Pittsburgh Pirates, which now has run Don's streak of scoreless innings to 54, breaking Carl Hubbell's National League record of 46⅓ shutout frames and putting the Hollywood-handsome hurler just two scoreboard zeroes shy of the alltime major-league mark held by Walter Johnson, the "Big Train" himself. Don, tell us, how does it feel to be right up there with those great names of yesteryear...
...trunkmaker from Poland and his mother a seamstress from Lithuania. After high school and some 20 miscellaneous jobs, including short-order cook and sheet-metal worker, he served a four-year hitch in the Navy and used the G.I. bill to join the Actors Laboratory Theater in Hollywood. In 1954, back in Manhattan as stage manager for CBS-TV, Papp organized an unsalaried Shakespeare workshop in the basement Sunday-school room of a church on the Lower East Side...
Died. Dan Duryea, 61, Hollywood's slippery heel (Black Bart, Terror Street, Manhandled); of cancer; in Hollywood. Duryea sparkled as a versatile actor whose rough treatment of women shocked audiences and censors alike (1945's Scarlet Street was banned in New York, probably for his ungentlemanly slapping of Actress Joan Bennett). He went on to portray a modified villain, recently appeared in roles that allowed him to play the gentle soul for a change...