Word: kell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generally approve of these oddballs she goes out with," John Bernard ("Kell") Kelly Jr., the national sculling champion, said last year (TIME, Jan. 31, 1955). He was referring to the foreign-born escorts his beautiful sister, Cinemactress Grace Kelly, seemed to prefer. "I wish," he added wistfully, "that she would go out with the more athletic type...
...certainly hoped he wouldn't run around the way some princes do, and I told him that if he did, he'd lose a mighty fine girl." The Prince solemnly promised that he would be an exemplary husband. After the family learned the happy news, even brother Kell had to admit that his prospective brother-in-law was no oddball. "I don't think we can make a sculler out of him," he said. "He's not tall enough. But I hear he's a terrific skin-diver...
...turned down, though; as a former bricklayer, he was not considered a gentleman. Kelly beat the Diamond Sculls winner just the same, at the Olympics two months later, and sent his stained sculling cap to King George V as a booby prize. In 1947 and 1949 son Kell won the Diamond Sculls easily, topped off his father's revenge...
...Nellie Fox, a consistent .300 hitter, has picked up new tricks in the infield, e.g., learned to go to his right for ground balls, under Marion's coaching. Shortstop Chico Carrasquel, not hitting up to par, is still one of the best in the business. Third Baseman George Kell, healthy again after a knee operation last winter, is the old pro who saves the game with a stop or a hit in the clutch...
...generally approve of these odd balls she goes out with," grumps brother Kell, who is still national sculling champion and works for his father's company between workouts on the Schuylkill. "I wish she would go out with the more athletic type. But she doesn't listen to me anymore." Some of Grace's admirers fear that M-G-M may do to her what the studio did to Deborah Kerr-lash her down to "lady" roles and keep her there. Even after The Country Girl, the best M-G-M could think of was to assign...