Word: player
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Michael Stewart, 20, whose father is president of a steam turbine company in Trenton, N.J., played end on Princeton's football team, won the John Prentiss Poe Memorial cup, the highest honor Princeton can bestow on a varsity football player. An honor student in philosophy, he was vice president of his class, president of his eating club, Cap and Gown, president of the Westminster Foundation, Presbyterian religious meeting group...
...Wild Party (Security; United Artists) is a crude thriller that pretends, when it has nothing worse to do, to be a bloody study of juvenile delinquency. The actors all try desperately to talk reet, but somehow it comes out wrong. Actor Quinn is "Big Tom . . . ex-football player, ex-hero, ex-person," who now has nothing to do but "just kind of pleasure myself around." On the night of the wild party he is "coal-mine low," and snarls, "1 gotta tear the world...
Scout, Squint, Study. Handsome Halfback Gifford was accustomed to such motion-picture heroics, being, in the first place, an occasional motion-picture bit-player and stunt man (Saturday's Hero, The All-American, etc.). He rehearsed for last week's game just as if for a movie. All week long Gifford and his teammates studied movies of the Eagles in action to learn their weaknesses and strengths...
Robby was ambitious, yet a little awed after he came off the athletic fields of U.C.L.A. (four letters), and prepped in Kansas City and Montreal before putting on a Brooklyn uniform to become at 28 big-league baseball's first Negro player. To prepare him, his mentor Branch Rickey called him into his office one day, cursed him, swung at him, then spat at him a particularly vile name. "What do you do now, Jackie?" Rickey asked. Robinson replied: "Mr. Rickey, I guess I turn the other cheek." For the next couple of years he played superlative baseball while...
...played anywhere he was told-first, second, third, outfield-and proved one of the sharpest spurs to six Dodgers pennants in ten years, as well as one of baseball's prime drawing cards. Said onetime Giant Manager Leo Durocher: "He can beat you in more ways than any player I know...