Word: lockers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home-town Hornets have just blanked the circuit-leading Mudhens, and the "writers"-as athletes tend to call reporters-are crowded into the Hornet locker room. There in the whirlpool bath is Ace Hurler Ace Hurley, naked as a slow curve, telling a cub reporter how he fanned the last three enemy swatters. She is scribbling fast...
...locker room, perhaps the last defensible male bastion in journalism, has gone coed. Since the National Hockey League broke the ice last year, more and more pro teams are admitting women to the sanctuaries of sweat. It is perhaps the biggest breakthrough for female scribes since Jane Swisshelm became the first woman reporter to invade the congressional press gallery more than a century...
...next month, and he is itching to move back to California after seven years as a running back for the Buffalo Bills. "I've paid my dues in Buffalo," he feels. So, too, does his wife Marguerite, who refuses to leave Los Angeles. So O.J. is looking for locker space with some team closer to home and his acting career, in which he has appeared most recently as a North African paterfamilias in the ABC-TV movie Roots. He has also signed up for lessons with Drama Coach Lee Strasberg, which is an approved way of paying dues...
When more than a dozen apparently unexplainable deaths occurred among patients at tiny Riverdell Hospital in suburban Oradell, N.J., in 1965-66, a young doctor finally decided to act on his suspicions. Opening the chief surgeon's locker, he found 18 mostly empty vials of curare-a highly lethal drug sometimes used in small doses to relax muscles during surgery. No charges were ever brought against the surgeon -who explained he was merely using the relaxant for experiments on dogs...
Harvard crew coach John Higginson has a sign hanging over the door of his lightweight oarsmen's locker room which reads, "Please don't feed the oarsmen." The sign serves two purposes. First, it reminds the rowers to stay under the prohibitory 160 pound limit and second it keeps the crew sufficiently hungry from race to race that come each weekend the Crimson lights go out and feast on whatever unsuspecting boats come their...