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...must have winced. Touring Europe on behalf of her ailing husband, Argentina's President Juan Peron, 78, Isabelita, 44, made it clear that she was not trying to usurp his role. In Rome, Eva's successor gave a 55-minute speech defining the feminine ideal with a kicker worthy of Gertrude Stein: "Women have to be and feel no more than what they are and no less than what they must...
Botched Story. Whole columns were deservedly devoted to such coups. But "The Lyons Den" more typically had the flair of a railway timetable. Lyons' prose strained toward the average, and his penchant for missing, mangling or omitting entirely the kicker of anecdotes was the despair of his sources. During the World War II point system of rationing managed by the Office of Price Administration, George S. Kaufman said that Lyons "missed so many points that he was under investigation by the OPA." One botched Lyons story: after Noel Coward had made some disparaging remarks about Brooklyn and earned...
...change appears to make a pro kicker's task as difficult as a collegiate booter's, but the width of pro goal posts will remain 18. ft., 6 in., while college goal posts measure nearly five feet wider...
Overall, the NFL has toppled the field goal kicker as the offensive ruler of the game only to enthrown the punter as defensive field marshall...
Crimson club president and flyhalf Mike Noble came home with 16 points to his credit (four tries), while kicker and fullback Gary Bond floated eleven points (three two-point conversions and a penalty kick) through the crossbars...