Word: mickey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Jack ("Doc") Kearns, 80, boxing promoter behind six world champions, among them Mickey Walker, Joey Maxim, Archie Moore, but none so great -or lucrative-as Jack Dempsey, whom Kearns met in 1917, within two years brought to the championship and later used to drum up the first million-dollar gates (against "Orchid Man" Georges Carpentier, Luis Angel Firpo); after a long illness; in Miami...
...years ago, when most little children her age were still watching television. Annette Funicello was already a member of the Mickey Mouse Club. One of twenty four young Mouse keteers Annette had a certain quality which made her stand...
...this talent, took her under his tutelage and made her a star. She first became chief heroiue of the Mouse series, then filled leading roles in several of Disney's feature-length films. Disney, she says, taught her to be natural, and that quality which first endeared her to Mickey Mouse and his expensive public, grew steadily...
...changing character of the League. Gone are Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Roger Maris, Minnie Minoso, Vic Power, Norm Cash and other big names of the past. Only two players catcher Earl Battey (.270) and left fielder Leon Wagner (.333) repeat from last year's team, although the incomparable Mickey Mantle (.310) won the vote despite his injury. Neophyte Pepitone (.273) is the only Yankee in the starting team, and Zoilo Versalles (.283), Minnesota's shortstop, is practically an unkown. Some old reliables, such as Nellie Fox (.277) at second, Al Kaline (.320) in right, and Frank Malzone (.333) at third...
While Houk was re-tooling the New York pitching staff into its best shape in recent years, other parts of the Yankee games developed fortuitously. Roger Maris, batting .261 when Mantle departed, began to take Mickey's place as a reliable power hitter. Maris is now hitting .299, with 17 homo runs, and has won numerous games with crucial extra-base hits...