Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shaw's aid to Harris, one of his early patrons and editors, went as far as a vest-pocket biography, full of Shavian anecdotes that Shaw wrote in a parody of Harris' journalistic style and entitled "How Frank Ought to Have Done It." His unique stunt no doubt contributed to Harris' actual Shaw biography. But Shaw saw to it that his stories enhanced Shaw too, offering witty cracks about himself, which he attributed to his contemporaries. One was supposedly by Oscar Wilde: "He has not an enemy in the world; and none of his friends like...
Died. Lou Stillman, 82, tough-talking, cigar-chewing patriarch of Stillman's Gym, for 38 years a monument to the prizefight game; in Santa Barbara, Calif. With an epic command of abusive language and a pistol in his pocket, Stillman presided from 1921 to 1959 over the gloomy New York City arena where Jack Dempsey, Georges Carpentier and Primo Camera-among thousands of others-worked out during their careers. "Big or small, champ or bum," he said, "I treated 'em all alike -bad. If you treat 'em like humans, they'll eat you alive...
Beep. Tucked into a smoker's pocket or handbag, the small "Bellboy" paging device sounds. The smoker immediately stops whatever he is doing and lights up, interrupting his meal or stepping from his shower. A Pavlovian response? Posthypnotic suggestion? No. The smoker is so anxious to give up cigarettes that he is strictly following one of the newest and most unusual of the proliferating antismoking regimens...
...hours before she died. Judging from her character, however, those matters are unlikely to be a consideration. An autopsy could determine more firmly whether she died by drowning or some other cause. It could not establish whether she had remained alive for a time, breathing in an air pocket, after the Kennedy car sank to the bottom of the saltwater pond...
...Panama Canal Zone, made a name for himself on New York City sandlots. A Twins scout came out to see him play in a doubleheader one day, and Carew responded by whacking a single, five doubles and a grand-slam homer. He soon had a Twins contract in his pocket, was called up to the parent club in 1967 after only three years of minor-league ball. Hitting over .300 by midseason, he was the only rookie picked to start on the American League All-Star team. He wound up the season with a solid .292 average...