Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could gallop along a picket fence and pick off every sun-basking lizard with a pistol. "I'm the champ," said he. and jovially charmed nearly everyone he met. Seven early years of work and study in Philadelphia-he never stopped rooting for the Phillies-gave him close U.S. ties. President Eisenhower, who sent his own surgeon. Major General Leonard D. Heaton, to try to save Tacho, noted in a message of condolence that Somoza "emphasized, both publicly and privately, his friendship for the United States...
...espionage incident was, much tamer than the Gouzenko case. Gouzenko's revelations involved top British and Canadian atomic scientists and a Member of Parliament. Popov's only known contact was a Grade 2 air-force clerk, James Stanley Staples, 30, whom he met at an Ottawa chess club...
...returned and applied for Italian citizenship and married an Italian girl. In 1946 Christoff made his Rome debut (as Colline in La Bohéme) and three years later achieved Boris, which had been his musical ambition since the time he saw the opera as a child. When the Met's Rudolf Bing invited him to New York in 1950, his visa was denied-Christoff never learned why. This time, the combination of eased diplomatic relations with Communist nations and some careful spadework by the San Francisco Opera officials did the trick...
When war was declared Duffy enlisted in the Army, went to OCS, and served 27 months as an officer in a port battalion in New Guinea. On the way to his overseas assignment, Lieut. Daugherty stopped off in San Francisco, where he met pretty Frances Steccati. Frances politely inquired how long the lieutenant would be in town. "About a month," said Duffy. Then he added casually: "We'll be married by then." They were...
...Gorillas. In 1945 Duffy grabbed the first football-coaching job he could find, at Trinity Prep in New York City. That same fall he met his old coach, Biggie Munn, who was planning to return to Syracuse as head man. Biggie asked Duffy to come along. The salary was to be only $2,000 (Duffy's present salary is $16,000), but Duffy jumped at the chance. When Munn switched to Michigan State in 1947, he took Duffy with...