Word: jai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...telling the sport news of the 30 years since then, TIME'S covers have ranged from boxing to jai alai, including stories on baseball, football, crew racing, chess, tennis, polo, ice hockey and skiing. Sport Editor Douglas Kennedy wrote this week's cover story, the seventh he has written since he came to TIME in '1950. Subjects of Kennedy's other cover stories: Sugar Ray Robinson, Dick Savitt, Princeton's Dick Kazmaier, Andrea Mead Lawrence, Eddie ("The Brat") Stanky, and Olympic Decathlon Champion Bob Mathias...
Word spread quickly. Thousands gathered outside the Ballabhdas house. When at last the widow appeared behind her husband's bier, surrounded by a cortege of weeping women, the crowd beat gongs, threw flowers and fried corn kernels, and sent up frenzied shouts of "Sati Mata ki jai" (Hail to the faithful mother-wife). Business in Jaipur came to a standstill; almost a third of the town's population moved out to the cremation grounds...
...Cuba and Miami, the game is known as jai alai (pronounced high lie). In the Basque country of France and Spain, where it became a national pastime some five centuries ago when local townfolk used to bat a ball against church walls, it is known as pelota (the ball). By whatever name, it is a lightning-fast combination of handball, tennis and lacrosse, played on a concrete court varying in length from 100 ft. to the size of a football field...
...ballet is not mass entertainment and most likely never will be." His credo: "You can't rationalize the public's taste. It isn't a question of intellectuality. It's the same thing as the public liking football and baseball and not liking polo and jai alai. It's just that we're attuned to that sort of thinking-we realize our audiences' tastes...
...Jai Prakash Narain...