Word: lating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Woodward had drifted through a series of jobs, freelanced a bit, wound up as sports editor of the Newark Star-Ledger. Aging (63), quieting (he hasn't kicked a shin in years), the Coach found the sudden vindication almost too much to take-and maybe a little late. "I just feel sort of sunk," he said, getting ready to go back. "It's been a long, long eleven years, and I'm wrung out like an old sock...
Vibrant, unassuming Alice is the daughter of Chicago Painter Ivan Albright and Josephine Medill Patterson, youngest daughter of the late Captain Joe Patterson, founder of the New York Daily News. Alice's Aunt Alicia Patterson, 52 (TIME Cover, Sept. 13, 1954), is 'the editor and publisher of Long Island's moneymaking, fast-growing tabloid Newsday (circ. 288,483). It is to Alice and her brother Joe, 21, a reporter on the Chicago Sun-Times, that Aunt Alicia may hand down important interests in Newsday, the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune...
...boxers are horses. "Give me the big horse and the big fighter," he cries. Smitty bought his first horse in 1947 with $700-a no-good hayburner named Roscoe Goose. In the next ten years he had more than a dozen others, none of them first-rate until, in late 1957, he bought Hillsdale for $25,000. No one was impressed. Two of Smitty's friends turned down the chance to buy a share in the horse. Jockey Eddie Arcaro politely declined the chance to ride him. But here and there, Hillsdale, a handsome horse of undistinguished bloodlines, began...
...Many years have passed since my rasslin' days," said the late Herman Hickman, who tried grunt-and-groan for a while before he graduated to football coaching, "but I know there have been few legitimate professional matches since Theseus laid down the wrestling rules in 900 B.C. I even have my doubts about whether that historic match between Ulysses and Ajax was a shoot. I still don't think you can get a better night's entertainment than you will by seeing your favorite hero tangle with a villain. This plot has had the longest...
Bold Venture, which was a radio vehicle for the late Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, is a carefully glued blend of sex and speed. Where Highway Patrol's Broderick Crawford roars about in a squad car and Whirlybirds' Ken Toby and Craig Hill soar through the sky in a helicopter, Actor Dane Clark as Shannon plows through the waves in a 62-ft. sloop. Dockside waits his nubile ward, played by Joan Marshall, whom Writer David Friedkin describes as a "lovely, whimsical, gay, arrant broad in love with a virile guy-only he doesn't want...