Word: macke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Omaha, "Mack" Baldridge, 1916 Yale tackle, boarded the train unexpectedly and revealed that Oregon was using underhanded methods. "Oregon is leaving no stone unturned in preparing its team to defeat you," he said. "I know a Yale player who was offered $150 and expenses to pay a visit to Oregon and outline Harvard's style of play in a blackboard talk...
Died. Lloyd Bacon, 65, Hollywood director of oldtime Mack Sennett two-reelers and of Al Jolson in The Singing Fool, the first major talkie (his latest: The French Line); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Burbank, Calif...
...Mack the Knife (Louis Armstrong combo; Columbia). An uptempo, updated version of Kurt Weill's wonderful old ragtime hit from The Threepenny Opera (1928). Satchmo plays a lilting chorus and growls some free variations on the fine Marc Blitzstein lyrics (1954). Then he hears a shouted "Take it, Satch," and the Armstrong trumpet takes it high...
Coach Bill McCurdy has seven top runners who start in every race, assuming they are free from sickness. Captain Dyke Benjamin, Bill Gillen, Jim Schlaeppi, and Bill Thompson are regular scorers. The fifth scoring post is generally alternated between Mack Brown, Al Gordon, and Larry Jaquith...
...First Game, at Yankee Stadium, made the smart money seem safe. Seldom out of trouble, Southpaw Ford held off the Dodgers through eight tight innings. Furillo and Snider reached him for homers; Jackie Robinson stole home-like a Mack truck. Still the Yanks stayed in front. They knocked out Big Don Newcombe before he finished six innings. Trying too hard to be the team sparkplug, Billy Martin was thrown out stealing home, but he saved the game with his fielding. First Baseman Joe Collins more than made up for the absence of injured Mickey Mantle by belting two home runs...