Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thorpe was born in a one-room log cabin near Prague, Okla. Jim's Indian mother-his father was half Irish-gave him the Sac and Fox tribal name Wa-Tho-Huck, meaning Bright Path. He was a muscular (5 ft. 11½ in., 185 Ibs.) youngster of 19 when he caught the eye of Football Coach Glenn ("Pop") Warner at the Carlisle (Pa.) Indian school. Pop Warner made Jim Thorpe into a football player, and Jim Thorpe made Pop's Carlisle Indians famous. One of Jim's biggest football thrills: "Running back two straight kickoffs...
...hunter] raised his gun to shoot; but suddenly his arms and neck began to quiver and in his own words, 'everything gave way under me and I squatted like a wet rag.' He had to abandon hunting because [whenever] a rabbit jumped up he would lose muscular tone and fall to the ground...
...days gone by, when you went to see Harvard play Yale in almost anything from wrestling to football you invariably saw Winthrop vs Yale. In certain sports this still helds true, but the House has done much to escape the stereotype of the "home of the muscular mesomorph." The effort has been fairly successful and the Halls of Standish and Gore are now peopled with a good cross-section of the college...
Last week, after 30 years of trying, Sculptor Baizerman, now 63, was having a little well-deserved success. In Minneapolis, the Walker Art Center devoted six rooms to Baizerman's biggest exhibit ever: 35 hammered pieces, from his muscular Unknown Soldier to a tender Suckling child and a long panel of intertwined nudes. In five weeks the gallery counted 5,000 visitors. Three of Baizerman's copper bas-reliefs were sold, and the Art Center has already made plans to send the show on to museums in Des Moines, San Francisco and Ottawa. Saul Baizerman was on hand...
Aggressive & Unchanged. Many of Ketcham's ideas for the cartoon no longer come from his son, who has begun to outgrow the caricature. Instead, Ketcham depends on his friend Bob Harmon, 34, a victim of muscular dystrophy, who keeps a steady stream of Dennis cartoon suggestions and captions flowing from his West Coast home, gets a large share of Dennis income. Dennis the Menace will never grow older, never acquire any brothers or sisters, or change in any way. Says Cartoonist Ketcham: "He'll be 4½ and unchanged all his aggressive little life...