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Word: player (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stengel has had phenomenal Series success over the year with such National League castoffs as Johnny Sain, Johnny Mize, Johnny Hopp, and Enos Slaughter. This time his wizardry was insufficient, however, and the Yankees might be thinking of Freddie Lindstrom, an old Giant player...

Author: By Charles I. Kingson, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 10/11/1957 | See Source »

...Hunch Player. Just as he hit his stride, Cox decided to quit. He got caught between the lines in a pitched battle between "downtown" alumni and Coach "Cowboy" Johnny Cherberg, and when his own eligibility proved to be at stake, he packed his gear and moved to Minnesota. National Collegiate Athletic Association rules kept Transfer Student Cox on the sidelines for a long, tough season. Then he busied himself by getting married once more. But his new wife has been forced to share him with his first love: football. Bobby still mixes his plays with fine disdain for classic strategy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: What Makes Robert Run? | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...have come here to be a personality kid and win friends and influence people, you might get what you are after, but it would have been quicker and cheaper to take a course in salesmanship. If you spend your spare time playing bridge, you will be a good bridge player; if you spend it in reading, discussing and thinking of things that matter, you will be an educated person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Scholar in Politics | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

What's worse, the difficulties of Eves-dropping are complicated by the inevitable fact that movies are made to be seen, and the camera has not been invented that can dolly around the landscape of the soul. Actress Joanne Woodward, a television player who is easily the twinklingest star that Hollywood has constellated this year, modulates face and figure with the eerie plasticity of an India-rubber woman, in a spectacular effort to reveal and distinguish the three people she is supposed to be. As Eve White, she looks something like a rose that has been pressed too long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 23, 1957 | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

...affidavit promising to go out of business). Meanwhile, back in Pittsburgh, young Murray Kram, Max's son and Uncle Ben's assiduous pupil, was keeping the family's tin-plated platinum cup clanking. A bat-eared young man with the mournful features of a card player who has aces wired, Murray could not ask alms as a disabled vet, since he had not been in service. Instead, with the customary request for $1, he made a frank pitch to the effect that the next-to-worthless crucifixes or rosary bracelets were "being sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Charity at Home | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

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