Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert (See Here, Private Hargrove") Walker, 29, Hollywood's perennial clean-cut kid, got off with a $50 fine after being picked up as "drunk, noisy and boisterous." He didn't improve things any at the station house when he sassed the cops, and offered to take them on, five at a time...
Died. Mary Eaton, 46, Ziegfeld Follies star of the '20s (a Broadway hit at 16, she also starred in Eddie Cantor's 1923 Kid Boots'); of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles...
...that they had to hate the guy across the line from them. Only a few days before, an eager freshman had driven a first-string tackle out of a play. When the big varsity man picked himself up, smiled and said, "Nice block," Coach Voigts got mad. "When the kid dumped you," he said, "you should have snarled." On Saturday against Minnesota, just when things looked blackest, the Wildcats began to snarl...
...this week? There would be few breath-taking solos, although dark-eyed Prima Ballerina Yvette Chauviré would certainly draw a few gasps with her cameolike dancing. Few of the 16 ballets would be familiar-and none would be as broad and nappy as U.S. ballets like Billy the Kid. Chicago's big stage was just right for the Paris ballet's specialty: brilliant spectacle in the great tradition, plus the bold and polished choreography of a greying little man known to balletomanes the world over, Serge Lifar, a onetime Diaghilev star. (Americans were not likely...
...Manager Billy Southworth had come a long way-up, down and up-since he was a Braves outfielder 27 years ago. He had been a Giant under John McGraw, then one of the swaggering St. Louis Cardinals when they won the 1926 World Series. Three years later, Billy the Kid became manager of the Cards-and promptly got his nickname changed to Billy the Heel. The bristling "boy martinet" forbade his old buddies to drive their own cars, clocked them in at night, was fired in midseason when morale and the Cards hit the skids...