Word: lockers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...average is 1.80 -best of any starting pitcher in the American League-and he leads the league in shutouts with five. Last week the Angels were in fifth place, only six games behind the Chicago White Sox, and Manager Bill Rigney was hollering at his players in the locker room: "Let's win the pennant." Jim McGlothlin was packing his glove and spikes. He had to pitch in the All-Star game...
...much. It is one thing for a swimmer to shave all the hair off his body to make an infinitesimal change in the resistance he offers to the water; it is something else again for "bennies," "dexies" and other assorted pep pills to pile up on the locker-room shelf. Almost inevitably, the International Olympic Committee announced that before the 1968 games in Mexico City all athletes will be carefully checked lest they use any stimulating dope...
Heroes, however, are not always easy to pick. One of Stone's early miscalculations was Jackie Robinson dolls-which were unaccountably outsold by Rival Joe DiMaggio dolls in Harlem stores. Now, with camp idol Batman beginning to fade, Licensing is going back to the locker room for more durable names. Not long ago, the company got French Diver Jacques Cousteau to give his name to a line of underwater gear. As for tennis and the USLTA, says Stone, they "will outlive...
...Locker Room. Hoping to profit from Licensing's touch, National Periodical Publications, Inc. (Mad magazine. Wonder Woman comics) bought the firm last year for $2,400,000 in stock. Royalties from manufacturers, who pay Licensing 5% of the wholesale price of goods sold with its endorsements, last year totaled some $5,000,000. Half of that goes to the owners of the names; the rest is nearly all profit...
...victims were buried naked in the bleak Manchester moors, where Myra posed smiling over the graves for Brady's camera; the third corpse was found by police in Brady's house. In addition to the bodies, photographs and tape recordings (found in a Manchester locker), police also discovered a lubricious library of sado masochistic pornography, ranging from the Marquis de Sade to a book titled High Heels and Stilettos. Most horrifying item: a 17-minute tape of the screams and pleas of pretty Lesley Ann Downey, ending with a macabre medley of Christmas music, Jolly Old Saint Nicholas...