Word: lynwood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Swimmers darted like dragonflies across its surface while they juggled a 9-in. inflated ball with aquatic agility. Spring-legged goalies exploded from the water to bat down the slick, wet ball whenever it was heaved at their 10-ft.-wide nets. But as the Olympic Club and the Lynwood Athletic Club of Downey, Calif., fought it out for the A.A.U. indoor water polo championship last week, spectators and referee alike were only partially interested in the fancy teamwork, the precise passing and the tireless swimming. They spent most of the time trying to peer into the bottom...
...Died. Lynwood Thomas ("Schoolboy") Rowe, 51, an affable giant (6 ft. 4 in., 210 Ibs.) from Waco, Texas who was a high school star at golf, tennis, track-and-field and football before be coming an ace righthander for the Detroit Tigers from 1933 to 1942, relied on assorted amulets, including a broken jade elephant and a high-hopping spitball, during a spectacular 1934 season in which he won 24 games, 16 consecutively; of a heart attack; in El Dorado...
...health declining, Adams put aside the fife, the piccolo, the mouth organ and the penny whistle he invariably brought with him to social occasions, and entered the Lynwood Nursing Home in uptown Manhattan. There he died last week at 78, of arteriosclerosis. Some years earlier he had parodied Henley's Invictus...