Word: player
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...European theater and through a remarkable series of triumphs on the European screen. For six years she has been top draw at the German box office, and she makes more money (about $85,000 a picture) than any other German actress. At 31, she is a serious professional player who takes more pride in the parts she can perform than in those she possesses. British Director John Boulting says flatly that she is "the greatest actress I have ever directed-a tremendous talent...
Captain Bob Cleary delighted the crowd with his brilliant "winding-up" plays and was very consistent in outskating every Clarkson player. The potential combination of Lyle Guttu and Cleary is undoubtedly the greatest in the East...
John Crow was too modest. At week's end he was on every All-America team worthy of the name (see box), and in an overwhelming vote by sportswriters, he won the Heisman Trophy as outstanding college football player of 1957. Chicago's professional Cardinals, entitled to first-draft choice because they have the worst record in the league, brightened their 1958 prospects by choosing Crow to team up with Rice's Quarterback King Hill* in the rejuvenation of the Cardinals' backfield...
...player who has put in four years of minor-league ball is now eligible for drafting (i.e., hiring) by any major-league club. Under the old rule, major-league owners of farm clubs could leave employees in the minors subject only to their own call. Promising rookies hired as "bonus babies" will no longer have to ride major-league benches but can be sent to the minors for seasoning...
...Chicago White Sox swapped Outfielder Larry Doby, Pitcher Jack Harshman and a player still to be named for the Baltimore Orioles' Infielder Billy Goodman, Pitcher Ray Moore and Outfielder Tito Francona. Then the Sox sent Outfielder Minnie Minoso and Third Baseman Fred Hatfield to Cleveland in return for aging Pitcher Early Wynn and Utility Man Al Smith. In two brisk moves they shuffled off 182 RBIs (Doby, 79; Minoso, 103) and picked up only 87 (Smith, 49; Francona, 38), but they did get a good pitcher in the bargain...