Word: hotshots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coach Taylor need not have lost any sleep. Next night against Memphis State, Lucas was a spring-legged hotshot. In one span of 77 sec., he scored 8 points (2 tap-ins, 4 foul shots), finished with 34 points in his team's 94-55 victory. Two nights later against Pittsburgh, Big Luke was the key of Ohio State's tight man-to-man defense. On offense, he roved the pivot, scoring 24 points (with a fantastic shooting average of 73% from the floor), directing teammates in his deep, sober voice ("Come on in, John, come in"). Final...
...months the unofficial want ad buzzed along the network grapevine. Gossip said the job was going begging, and many a hopeful hotshot managed to get his name noised about as a candidate. But the yearners never had much of a chance. Last week one of the plushiest producing jobs in the television business went to CBS Vice President Hubbell Robinson Jr., 53, the man who had dreamed up the Ford series in the first place...
Even a Madison Avenue hotshot could not hope to straighten out the public relations mess in which the HSA became entangled. Thus, HSA's main problem for this second year, and perhaps for some years to come, will be making friends among the student members. Officers of the corporation are now walking a tight-rope; without some public approbation, the member concessionaires cannot make an adequate profit...
...stole
the $133,950 Preakness from Sunny Blue Farm's Lincoln Road by a long
length and a half. The weather was fine, the track was fast, and when
Silky Sullivan, the California clown, clumped home eighth, he had no
excuses. The truth was out: the Western hotshot is an Eastern
horselaugh.
...Breezing home by 4½ lengths, Travis M. Kerr's bay colt Round Table easily won the $156,990 Santa Anita Maturity. At Florida's Hialeah, 1957 Kentucky Derby Winner Iron Liege lugged 124 Ibs., and, even with Hotshot Willie Hartack up, finished second to Happy Hill Farm's Kingmaker, carrying 116 Ibs., in the $30,-650 Royal Palm Handicap...