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...demanded from the Philadelphia 76ers not his usual $250,000 yearly salary but a piece of the team. Philadelphia Owner Irv Kosloff was willing to pay him the salary, but balked at making him a partner, so he traded Wilt to the Los Angeles Lakers, whose owner Jack Kent Cooke did not need a partner either. What Cooke needs is an N.B.A. Championship, so he offered Wilt a five-year contract totaling an estimated $1,500,000. Cooke now owns three superstars: Elgin Baylor, Jerry West and Chamberlain, and the problem may be to get three balls into the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Basketball: Another Walk for Wilt | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

...through an untidy kitchen. He wakes up singing "You can take Salem out of the country, BUT . . ." His kids, riding shotgun on the shopping cart, may not know a stanza of The Star-Spangled Banner, but they can rap out several verses of "To a Smoker, It's a Kent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: . . . And Now a Word about Commercials | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

...KENT PARROT...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Top Five Senior Athletes | 6/13/1968 | See Source »

...Kent Parrot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Top Five Senior Athletes | 6/13/1968 | See Source »

...Kent Parrot got married February 16 and played hockey against St. Lawrence the next night. He didn't score against the Larries, but it was one of the few times in his career that he failed. A 5-10 blond from the Boston area, Parrot was New England Sophomore of the Year in 1965. By tallying four points in his final regular season game (against Yale) and an assist in the first round of the ECAC Tournament, Parrot emerged as the third highest scorer in Harvard history behind Bob Cleary and Gene Kinasewich. After the hockey season, he played...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Top Five Senior Athletes | 6/13/1968 | See Source »

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