Word: pyle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more sapient director might have restrained Kendra Stearns (Mae) from overacting quite so much, but it is difficult to see what anyone could have done with Gooper (Robert Higgins) or Doctor Baugh (Nick Pyle), except perhaps not casting them. John van Sickle, on the other hand, was quite adequate as Reverend Tooker...
...with Gossip Columnist Leonard Lyons. He not only allowed but encouraged the world to turn him into a character. He had well-publicized talks about child care with Grandmother Marlene Dietrich ("The Kraut"), jovially referred to himself as Doctor Hemingstein or Old Ernie Hemorrhoid ("The Poor Man's Pyle"), and talked of his literary prowess in prizefighting terms: "I trained hard and I beat Mr. De Maupassant. I've fought two draws with Mr. Stendhal, but nobody is going to get me in any ring with Mr. Tolstoy unless I'm crazy or keep getting better...
...Phoenix's city council in 1949 on a nonpartisan reform ticket. Goldwater led his slate into office, helped clean up a deficit, and set up a businesslike city-manager system. Next year, he managed the successful gubernatorial campaign of an old Republican friend, Radio Announcer Howard Pyle; suddenly both the G.O.P. and Barry Goldwater became respectable forces in Arizona politics...
...Howard (H); mile: Mullin (H) and Hamlin (H); two-mile: Mack (Y) and Fitzgerald (H); hammer: Doten (H) and Bailey (H); broad jump: Chris Ohiri (H, and the only freshman named) and Jim Axtell (Y); pole vault: Blodgett (H) and Oukley Andrews (Y); discus: Bronstein (H) and Mike Pyle (Y); and Javelin: John Livingston (Y) and Henry Hallas...
Bright as they are, the Yale players were slow to reach their potential, mainly because Ivy League law prevented Coach Jordan Olivar from holding spring practice. This year, with its fundamentals finally down pat, Yale blended power and finesse on the attack. With Pro Prospects Pyle and Guard Benny Balme (6 ft. 1 in., 215 Ibs.) blocking up front, Yale had the brute strength to open holes for the driving runs of Fullback Blanchard (6 ft. 2 in., 205 Ibs.). When the defense bunched to stop Blanchard, Quarterback Singleton would run the option inside end-hitting like a fullback himself...