Word: players
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Varsity football captain Ted Metropoulos gained a position on the United Press All-New England second team yesterday, but he was the only Crimson player to receive the honor. Junior back Walt Stahura and sophomore tackle Bob Shaunessy got honorable mention...
...course, I'm easily amused, but the Gilbert and Sullivan Player's second production could easily amuse anyone. After all, the only thing that Gilbert and Sullivan really requires is a good chorus and plenty of vigor. Iolanthe has both, and more. The show has a few good voices, enough upright carriage and arching of brows, and just the right proportion of gentle traipsing. Iolanthe's brilliant lines, scoring Liberals and Conservatives, Queen Victoria, and the peer-made British plebes, Parliament and Chancery and even Captain Shaw of the London Fire Brigade, could carry virtually any cast. Happily, they...
...Schlitz Playhouse of Stars for the third time. All three shows exploited the Dean legend for frankly commercial purposes. "He's hotter than anybody alive," cried one NBC executive. The pulse-takers backed him up: Harvest, in which Dean was originally only a featured player, bludgeoned the opposition with a sizable 24.3 Trendex rating with Dean billed as star...
...Comfortably ahead of any spring dickering over salary, Yankee Mickey Mantle was practically assured of a sizable raise by the Baseball Writers Association. New York's switch-hitting center fielder was the sportswriters' unanimous choice as the American League's Most Valuable Player in 1956. Runner-up: the Yankees' Catcher Yogi Berra, winner the last two years...
...There's been no Rose Bowl talk at Iowa," said the Hawkeyes' Coach Forest Evashevski. The "One Man Gang" who led Michigan's bruising prewar powerhouses in 1939-40 had yet to win a football game in Minneapolis-either as Michigan player or Iowa coach. So he forgot about New Year's Day and concentrated on the task at hand. "I'll be taping my players all night," he added as he brooded over the long roster of Iowa casualties...