Word: kramer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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INSTANT REPLAY: THE GREEN BAY DIARY OF JERRY KRAMER. Edited by Dick Schaap. 286 pages. World...
...Jerry Kramer slaves for the Green Bay Packers-the football equivalent of the Radio City Rockettes-a group that habitually barters personal freedom for perfection. His tamer has been an emotional virtuoso named Vince Lombardi, a cross between the late General Patton and a good Italian mama: a raging, weeping computer who can get his players down on Tuesday, up on Wednesday, buried on Thursday and winning on Sunday, virtually at will...
...Birthday." Mrs. Robert Wolfson paid $2,000 for a walk-on part in the TV series, Mission Imposible; St. Louis Globe-Democrat Publisher G. Duncan Bauman bid $2,500 for a Chinese dinner with and by Danny Kaye; and others fought over a chance to play tennis with Jack Kramer, to write a bylined 500-word article for the Globe-Democrat, or attend the Inaugural Ball...
Dozens of Crimeds, clad in pastel shirts, entered the competition, held in a room carefully designed to simulate a television studio. Coach Joel R. Kramer began to rapid-fire questions at them, and made a record of who answered what...
Even within the context of its elementary substance (which, I'd say, even Stanley Kramer would find old hat), Sligar and Son fails to come off. The plot, flatly melodramatic at best, usually seems contrived and often collapses under the strain of its distortions of reality...