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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Player's Weight. In Blackpool, England, Ventriloquist Terry Hall was threatened with loss of membership in the Association of Non-Smokers unless he stops his dummy from smoking during...
This early game was known as the "Boston game," a sort of cross between rugby and a free-for-all. A curious feature was that a player could run and throw or pass the ball only if he were being pursued by an opponent. When the opposing player gave up pursuit he called out to the runner, who had to stop and kick the ball...
Supporting player: Herbert Stempel, 31, brainy product of The Bronx, who seems to want nothing better than to be part of Dan Enright's world. Among the things these two men have in common is a strange reliance on the cliches of psychoanalysis-the ex-slum kid's new equalizer...
...leading the majors with 42 home runs and the league with no runs batted in.* Far behind were such famed sluggers as the Giants' Willie Mays (23 homers) and the Yankees' Mickey Mantle (83 runs batted in). Banks seemed a sure bet to become the eighth player-and the first shortstop-ever to hit more than 50 homers in a single season. Moreover, Cub fans with a faith in miracles hopefully noted that Banks was just three games off the 1927 pace of Babe Ruth when he hit his record 60 homers...
...strong point to his game. Handsome, thin-lipped Arnold Palmer is one of the game's longest drivers. Brash, freckled Ken Venturi is without peer on long irons. Chubby, affable Bill Casper has the steadiest short game on the tour. There are weaknesses, too. Palmer is a streak player ("It seems I was always blowing up just when I thought my game was under control''). Both he and Venturi are subject to long sieges of putting miseries. Casper tends to scatter his long shots and has a predilection for one bad round in too many tournaments...