Word: peg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officers and gentlemen," says Kemper, "which was hard for my sisters, but not for me." The colonel tried and failed to make Johnny a star athlete, but his upright New England mother made him something better. "He is a good man," says his sister Peg. "Anything cheap or second-rate has never been in his mind...
...good leader-manager of varsity lacrosse, superintendent of the post Sunday school, captain of his regiment and class president. He did well in history, a fact that counted later. An avid dancer, he hoofed in the annual Hundredth Night Show, loved to go out shagging with Peg at nearby Vassar...
Bill Stafford and Whitey Ford allowed four runs between them in nailing down the other two Yankee wins while teammates came up with crucial defensive plays. All three outfielders (Mantle, Maris and Tresh) made spectacular catches at critical moments, capped by Maris' run-preventing peg in the last inning of the seventh game...
...down just as fast. His teams won pennants and finished dead last. He set attendance records (his 1948 season total of 2,620,627 in Cleveland is still a major league mark) and flirted with bankruptcy. A confessed "publicity hound" who for years stumped around on a wooden peg (he lost his right leg as the result of a World War II inju ry), he spent money like a drunken sailor on sparkling Burgundy (he calls it "bubble ink") for himself, fireworks, exploding scoreboards, blaring bands and tightrope walkers for his wide-eyed fans...
Their names, if they were married, were Peg and Tom, Jane and Bill, Jeremy and Jennifer. Single men were always called Brick or Brock or Bruce. Unmarried girls needed a gallant name; it was usually Helen. They lived in a smallish, unidentified city in an immemorial Indiana. The men spoke to each other in a language called kidding ("You old son of a gun"), and the women talked somberly about "our marriage'' as if marriage were a large, fragile china object one kept in the front hall. They led decent, busy lives, and the worst sinners among them...