Word: kermit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Phillip was born in the West Texas town of Kermit (pop. 7,000), doctors soon saw that nature had made a series of deadly mistakes. Milk could not reach the baby's stomach, because his gullet came to a dead end in the upper chest. He had no anal opening (the lower colon wound itself into another dead end). Furthermore, both kidneys were on the right side, and one did not work. Surgeons at nearby Odessa made a temporary opening into Phillip's stomach so he could be fed, and another opening in the lower bowel...
Right wing Kermit Roosevelt opened the scoring for the Elephants with a long, high shot from the right sidelines that the goalie was unable to reach. Dunster was unable to score until the last minute of the game, when it capitalized on a penalty and pushed over its only goal...
...Kearn, and Carlos Rodriguez will lead the Funster soccer team in the play-off against Eliot next week. Eliot earned its place in the title match by defeating Kirkland, 3 to 0, Tuesday afternoon. The loss dropped the Deacons to third place. Tom Gleason, Steve Truett, Charam Pahlari, and Kermit Roosevelt led the Elephant booters...
...Kermit Bud Laabs, comissioner of the Frontier Conference in the Southwest, bluntly opposed Griswold. "A swindle, my eye," he answered. "If athletic scholarships are a swindle why not use the same yardstick for measuring the value of scholarships awarded for other activities...
Broadway's top producer this season, 53-year-old Kermit (Look Homeward, Angel] Bloomgarden (TIME, April 21), had the good fortune to form a team of three men with widely varied experience in show business: Composer (You and I, Two in Love] and oldtime Radio Performer Meredith Willson, 56, the jovial lowan who in his first try for the theater wrote book, music and lyrics; Director (No Time for Sergeants, Auntie Mame) Morton Da Costa, 44, who gave the show its sparkle and pace; and the Music Man himself, longtime Cinemactor Robert Preston, 40, known vaguely to millions...