Word: maddens
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Huge celebrity, accompanied by great wealth, can occasionally befall an odd character, especially when television is involved. But has there ever been a more unlikely national figure than John Madden, the animated elephant who used to coach the Oakland Raiders and now instructs the country in its most bewildering sport? Though he won more than 100 National Football League games in only ten years and directed his team to a Super Bowl victory in 1977, Madden was obscured in Oakland by autocratic Owner Al Davis...
Retiring abruptly in 1979 (at just 42), not really because of his ulcer, not precisely because his fear of flying was nearing a frenzy, Madden reluctantly accepted CBS's second or third offer of a commentator's tryout and hesitantly began jumping through paper hoops in Miller Lite beer commercials. Nine years later, his network stipend is crowding $1 million a year, and the rewards from his myriad motor-oil and antihistamine accounts may be two or three times that. He has written two best-selling memoirs (Hey, Wait a Minute, I Wrote a Book! and One Knee Equals...
...most part been cattle ranchers in Midland, Texas. But her father Fred Turner Jr. was a devout horse lover who had Derby Winner Tomy Lee (Bill Shoemaker's old friend) in 1959. Another return to glory amounted to an end to laughter: the breeder of Alysheba is Preston Madden of Lexington's Hamburg Place, the hors d'oeuvres center of the bluegrass. During the first 25 years of this century, John E. Madden was known as the "wizard of the turf." He bred five Derby winners, including Sir Barton. But the grandson Preston and his flamboyant wife Anita have been...
Princeton came out fired up to start the second half, and when a Dave Madden shot flew past Bergmann 85 seconds into the third quarter, the game was knotted...
Shot Put--1. Brian Janssen, Dartmouth, 49-ft., 5-in.; 2. Joe Madden, Brown, 48-ft., 6-in.; 3. Joseph Giani, Harvard, 46-ft., 8-in.; 4. Maurice Frilot, Harvard 46-ft., 1 1/2-in...