Word: jock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time was when Pittsburgh was a football and baseball city. The University of Pittsburgh Panthers under Coach Jock Sutherland were the terrors of the collegiate football world, and the Pittsburgh Pirates were perennial first-division players. Times have changed. Nowadays, with the Pirates in the depths* and the Panthers rebuilding, Pittsburgh is basketball-crazy over the Duquesne Dukes. Last week, after the Dukes had beaten the strong, star-studded Quantico Marines, who had won 28 of their last 30 games, basketball coaches and sportswriters voted undefeated Duquesne the No. 1 team...
Hannah Lee (Jock Broder Productions) refers to a cowboy ballad used as background music to one more encounter between the wicked cattle barons and the hapless homesteaders. Macdonald Carey plays the hired gunman who slaps small boys, makes roughhouse passes at the beautiful saloonkeeper (Joanne Dru), and shoots harmless people dead. For all the gunplay, the film limps along from anticlimax to anticlimax, but moviegoers may be beguiled by some spectacular Technicolor scenery. As the U.S. marshal who goes to the rescue, John Ireland sets some sort of precedent by losing all his fist fights and getting shot down...
...granddaughter of F.D.R., will become the June bride of a Manhattan barber's son. A Bryn Mawr junior, the bride-to-be is the daughter of Jimmie Roosevelt and the former Betsey Gushing, who divorced Roosevelt in 1940 and is now the wife of Financier John Hay ("Jock&") Whitney. The engagement announcement broke the news that Whitney, with the consent of Jimmie Roosevelt, had legally adopted Sara in 1949 to put her in line for the family fortune (reportedly around $50 million). The groom-to-be is Concert Pianist Anthony di Bonaventura, 23, whom Sara met in Philadelphia...
...JOCK M. THOMSON Toronto...
...Jock Whitney's plan to help Clarksburg get TV had the backing of local businessmen, the Chamber of Commerce and the city council. But Publisher Highland blocked every move, covered his front pages with stories about the evils of TV and the big-city "bellhops" who were trying to impose it on his community. Last week at the final city council meeting to decide the question, the council unanimously approved the plan, which will give Clarksburg TV within 90 days. Many Clarksburg citizens wished that Jock Whitney's free-enterprising ventures could also include a new paper...