Word: kicking
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Columbia, rated as a likely bet for the cellar, upset heavily favored Brown, 23-20, on a 22-yard kick by Rudy Pegoraro, an alternate fullback for the Lions. Their coach, Aldo Donelli, produced a secret weapon in his quarterback son, Dick, who outmaneuvered Brown's defense to turn in two touchdown passes and a crucial, last-minute pass Interception. Young Donelli may make up for the loss of last year's one-man team, Claude Benham...
When Gertrude Stein went on a mystery-reading kick, the American Library in Paris fed her doses of 18 whodunits a week; Poet Stephen Vincent Benét researched John Brown's Body within its walls, and Molotov once checked out an almanac. Since its start in 1920, the American Library-a nonprofit, privately operated institution now located on the Champs-Elysées-has been an outpost of U.S. culture that has soothed homesick tourists, stimulated bored expatriates, and provided facts-good or bad-about the U.S. to anyone who dropped...
...will say that the biggest and most powerful U.S. labor union is indeed riddled with corruption. The Executive Council will probably approve the report and then, just before the Teamster convention in Miami Beach, warn the union to clean house or face expulsion from the united labor movement. To kick out nearly 10% of its members with one boot would be a painfully drastic move for the A.F.L.-C.I.O., but it may come to that if, despite the clean-up-or-else warning, Hoffa gets himself elected president. James Riddle Hoffa would be one new broom that could hardly...
...Cole PorterS. J. Perelman musicollaboration on Alladin. To plug the Ford Motor Co.'s new Edsel, Crooners Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra will team up for the first time on TV. And Producer John Houseman's new Omnibus-type show, The Seven Lively Arts, will kick off in November with Perelman's treatment of The Changing Ways of Love over the past 30 years. Arts will also tackle: Ernest Hemingway, Evangelism, the Ray Bradbury stories and The Nutcracker Suite. Critic John Crosby, currently on leave from his TV syndicated column to polish up on his broadcast manners...
BRITAIN'S ROLLS-ROYCE is starting big sales drive into U.S. luxury-car market, plans to export 20% of its production to U.S. Rolls has nearly tripled its U.S. distributorships (to 59) in past 60 days, will soon kick off newspaper ad campaign, and send a caravan on tour of Southwest cities to push its $12,500 Bentley and $12,800 Silver Cloud...