Word: ohioans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edison, by Matthew Josephson. An effective portrait of the tobacco-chewing Ohioan who became the U.S.'s most flamboyant inventor, partly by being one of its best promoters...
Edison, by Matthew Josephson. A well-done portrait of the tobacco-chewing Ohioan, who became the U.S.'s most flamboyant inventor partly by being one of its best promoters...
Wednesday Night Fights (ABC, 10 p.m.). Two good mixers: World Featherweight Champion Hogan ("Kid") Bassey of Nigeria risking his title against Ohioan Davey Moore in Los Angeles...
...Wimbledon it rained, rained, rained, rotting the roses and mildewing many a seeded reputation. Down fast went U.S. Oldsters Budge Patty, 34, and Gardnar Mulloy, 44. Still a hope in the quarterfinals was robustious Ohioan Barry MacKay, 22. But Australia's mercurial Mervyn Rose caught MacKay slew-footed with teasing volleys and adroitly angled passing shots, eliminated him 6-2, 6-4, 6-4. Though Rose wilted in a semifinal rout by Fellow Aussie Ashley Cooper, the men's final was an Australian crawl again for the third straight year, with Cooper beating Teammate Neale Fraser after...
From their first drives, the young pros buckled down confidently to the high-pressure match play, a hole-by-hole, pair-by-pair elimination contest in which the player who takes the most holes wins the round. Ohioan Finsterwald. playing a cool game in 93° heat, won-by two holes over California's Don Whitt, 26, despite a tremendous rally by Whitt that included a startling hole-in-one on the 145-yd. 13th. Hebert, meanwhile, was hitting his approach shots with machine-gun precision, putting straight enough on Dayton's tricky greens to knock off Michigan...