Word: relics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tightening up for the late-season drive for the flag, the New York Yankees gave their longtime (13 seasons) Shortstop Phil Rizzuto, 37, his unconditional release to make room for a new outfielder. The new man: Kansas City's 40-year-old Enos ("Country") Slaughter. A remarkably durable relic of the old Cardinals, Country Slaughter was traded to the Yanks in 1954, sent to the Athletics last year...
When the "Declaration of Principles" was put to a vote, only' a few diehards held out. An overwhelming majority of delegates voted to proclaim a mixed economy as the CCF's new goal, and to file the 1933 manifesto as a quaint relic...
...start laughing instead of cussing when I miss those shots, he's going to stop me from playing golf. So every time I miss a shot you're going to hear a haw, haw, haw." Ike's only real complaint was about his "football knee," a relic of his West Point days. "You know," he told Walter, after walking six holes, "my knee twinges now and then . . . First time in years...
...even more ancient sight than Lucille Ball with shoulder pads is the short subject, featuring Ben Turpin in Mack Sennett's Small Town Idol. The only entertaining thing about this relic is the realization that great-grandmother once laughed at it. More to modern taste are the two Mr. Magoo cartoons. Good old Magoo staggers through a skiing trip and the sale of his furniture in grand style. He is even better than Groucho Marx, which is quite a feat...
...Vinson's is a sad case. Back from the war he finds the old England swept away: "All the initials have gone from inside the bowler hats." With mystic joy he accepts the unpaid, unwanted post of Co-Warden of the Badgeries, an ancient symbolic office whose sole relic is a stuffed badger. Hardly has his new identity begun to cover him when he is killed as he falls on a pike during a symbolic parade to the glory of symbolic England that was. Just as sad is the case of the man so sexually unidentified that he wrote...