Word: roo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Billy Cannon (Louisiana State) is a shattering, run-over-them power sprinter, has gained 569 yds. against defenses specifically rigged to contain him. An adequate passer, dependable kicker and sure-tackling safety man, Cannon also finds time for track and field (9.5 sec. for the roo-yd. dash, 53 ft. 7 in. with the 16-lb. shot), even does some weight lifting, can press 260 Ibs., dead-lift 450. Says Track and Field News: "He's either the fastest shotputter or the strongest sprinter in track annals." Says the legendary Sammy Baugh: "Well, he's as great...
Died. Harry McElhone, 67, elfin proprietor of Harry's New York Bar, 5 Rue Daunou, Paris; of heart disease; in Garches, France. "Just tell the taxi driver Sank Roo Doe Noo," said Harry, and multitudes of parched, unilingual Americans followed his directions. Taken to fame in the '20s by a quaffeé society that included Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Harry's was the cradle of the International Bar Flies, a loosely knit organization ring-led by the late Columnist O. O. (for Oscar Odd) Mclntyre...
Dere's no guy livin' dat knows Brooklyn t'roo an' t'roo . . . It'd take a guy a lifetime . . . an' even den, yuh wouldn't know...
...that, a former associate replies: "Ben ain't in this to look at pretty girls in tights; he don't do nothin' that don't make money." Whatever else he may do, Club Owner Maksik looks like a guy who knows his Brooklyn t'roo an' t'roo...
...quite forgot") and the tantrums of his little friends ("What is the matter with Mary Jane?") worked their way into the repertory of mothers, nannies and children on both sides of the Atlantic. Billy's stuffed animals came to life as Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore, Kanga and Roo. As if these animals were not enough, Milne invented some others, e.g., the Heffalump and "a sort of a something which is called a wallaboo...