Word: howe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tell for it, Mr. Howe. The cardinal rule of advertising to get the person's attention. It doesn't matter how. The ad can be distasteful, like Burger King Kiddies' "na na na na na" jingle about their victory in some taste-test, or fantastic and sex filled, like the Edge ad. Remember that this ad appeared in a Newsweek supplement distributed solely to college students. It was targeted for you and it worked...
...teams, the Edmonton Oilers and the Boston Celtics, are each the sport's defending champion. But increasingly Gretzky and Bird are referred to as the best hockey and basketball players of all time. Both resist the idea. "It's silly to argue that," Gretzky says. "In my mind Gordie Howe is the best player who ever played hockey and the best man who ever played sports. Then others say Bobby Orr was better than Howe. There'll never be another Howe. There'll never be another Orr. But there'll be another kid to compare them...
Gretzky was a six-year-old on a team for ten-year-olds, and at eleven made Howe's acquaintance. The great man inquired gently, "Do you practice your shots, son?" "Yes, sir, I do," he replied. "Your backhand too?" "Yes, sir." "Good. Make sure you keep practicing that backhand." Of all the remarkable entries in Gretzky's log--most goals by far in a season (92), most assists by far (125), most points (212), most records (35 in the N.H.L. alone)--the least told is the most telling. The first goal he ever scored in Junior B league play...
...goes, it's enough for me that the flags are flying in Boston Garden." Neither expected to possess his sport for long or forever. "When I finish," says Gretzky, "I'll walk away from it totally, be my own person, my own businessman." This plan amuses Gretzky's friend Howe, who lingered 32 pro seasons and is a Hartford Whalers' executive now. The way Bird looks at it, "When it's all over with, I'll just go off and be glad. At the end of every season, when you get up the next morning, you think...
...victory culminated an undefeated season (10-0) that saw Harvard capture both the Ivy League championship and the Howe Cup--the women's national squash title--for the first time in the team's 10-year history...