Word: ole
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Since signing on at Ole Miss in 1947, Coach Vaught has compiled a won-lost record of 109-29, second only to the 123-19 of Oklahoma's Bud Wilkinson among major college coaches. In 1959 Ole Miss was a strong second to Syracuse in the national rankings. Last week, on the strength of its 24-3 defeat of tough Tennessee, Vaught's undefeated, once-tied wing-T squad stood third in the standings for the finest two-year record of any college team...
...hoedown on a harpsichord may appeal to pop fans, but it pains oldtime C. & W. lovers: Nashville's famed Grand Ole Opry radio show still frowns on the use of any instrument other than a fiddle or guitar on its stage. The unsentimental recordmakers, on the other hand, argue that whatever the instrumentation, the essence of C. & W. has been retained in what they like to call the "Nashville Sound." As nearly as anybody can define it, the Sound is the byproduct of musical illiteracy. "In New York and Los Ange-les," says Columbia Records' Don Law, "they let their...
Streaking into their tenth Series under Ole Casey, the Yanks swept their last 15 games to take the American League flag by eight games over the late-dying Baltimore Orioles...
...weakness," confessed Earl Kemp Long some time ago, "is that I spout off too much. But if I ever closed this mouth, God help Uncle Earl." Last week, only nine days after he won the Democratic primary nomination (and thus the election) for Congress from his home district, contentious Ole Earl Long, 65, three-time Governor of Louisiana, uneasy heir to the political fortunes of his rabble-rousing dictator brother Huey, said his last. Bedded in an Alexandria hospital, his body ravaged by a weak heart and his mind deteriorated, he gulped a cup of coffee, turned over...
...Democratic primary runoff election that will surely plop him into the U.S. House of Representatives next January, Louisiana's ex-Governor Earl Long, a hard-living 65, was borne by stretcher from victory to a hospital. His self-diagnosis: ptomaine poisoning from eating some very ripe pork. Drawled Ole Earl of his triumph over Incumbent Harold McSween in the back-country Eighth District race: "Ah don't think it helped McSween with all that about mah bein' crazy...