Word: idol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They don't razz me much any more. When I started fogging my fast ball in there, they quit." And she is doing all right at bat: she has whacked three home runs in nine games, and her current batting average is .700. Last week, Alice emulated her idol, Bob Feller, by pitching a no-hitter. Southpaw Alice, whose opinion of her teammates' ability is not high ("Our shortstop can't catch the ball, and our catcher's terrible, too . . . The boys should practice more"), did it the hard way. She struck out every batter...
...went home to a triumph. Camden's mayor decreed an official Joe Walcott day, joined 100,000 Jerseyites in front of city hall, flaunting banners: "Welcome Home Champ," "Good Job, Joe." In the jostling crowd, one fan straight-armed a policeman in his effort to get near his idol, shouting: "Wanna see the boy. Close-up like. Not way back here...
Died. David Warfield, 84, U.S. matinee idol during the first quarter of the century (The Return of Peter Grimm, The Music Master, The Merchant of Venice), who through wise investments became one of the world's richest actors; after long illness; in Manhattan. Starting as a theater usher in San Francisco, he went to New York in 1889, first found work as a saloon entertainer, was later starred by famed Producer David Belasco, with whom he had a falling out in 1924, after which he quit the stage...
...treated. Before he had a chance to announce the writer's name, the bell rang, and the students streamed out. Thurber found himself walking alongside Elliott Nugent, who was everything on the campus that Thurber was not-athlete, social success, best actor in the dramatic club, class president, idol of the coeds...
Education in HaHem. Looking back on his early years, Sugar Ray likes to tell about the days when he and Joe Louis were growing up together in Detroit's brawling "Black Bottom" district. Whenever Joe was in the gym," says Robinson, "so was I. He was my idol, and still is." That memory is a convenient bit of fiction that his mother, Mrs. Leila Smith, dispels with a single word: "Baloney." Actually, Robinson's story sticks a lot closer to the traditional boxer's mold-the hungry, ambitious kid who had to fight for survival from...