Word: sam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rowing in the second boat will be: sophomore Sam Perry, at bow; junior Pete Cummin, at two; sophomore Pete Walker, at three; senior Bob Clement, at four; sophomore Tom Shapiro, at five; junior Sarg Cheever, at six; sophomore Stu Gauld, at seven; sophomore Galen Brewster, at stroke; and senior Dave Perkins...
...lifted. But when Hitler came to power in 1933, Spiegel thought it best to flee to Vienna. Six years later, he returned to Hollywood with an idea for casting a picture with nothing but stars. Tales of Manhattan had nothing but stars to its credit, but Sam...
Through it all, Sam spiegeled-a verb which has a special meaning for anyone who has worked for him. It means to soothe, cajole, or con another; a talking-out-of, a sleight-of-mouth operation. During the six months the Lawrence crew spent in the desert, many a worker cracked, more from Sam-than sun-strain. A typical mutineer's speech: "I'm through. I've had it. I quit. I'm going to tell Sam he can take his bleeding, bloody picture and shove it. I'm getting out of here...
With a slender one-stroke edge to protect on the last day, Nicklaus played so slowly that he reminded fellow pros of "a turtle in leg irons." One after another, they took their shots at the big blond who had just turned 23. On the 15th hole, Sam Snead who, at 50, was playing in his 24th Masters, sank a birdie putt and learned that he had jumped into the lead. But on the next hole, Snead three-putted for a bogey and dropped back into the pack. Gary Player led Nicklaus briefly; but he bogeyed the last two holes...
Died. Mary Dowell Copeland, 48. Manhattan nightlife's big (6 ft. 3 in.), beautiful "Stutterin' Sam" of the '30s and '40s, a Texas-born show girl and one of Billy Rose's original "long-stemmed American Beauties," who quit at the height of her fame ("I've been a clothes horse for fi-i-i-ve years-how do I know I'm not an idi-i-i-ot?") to try her hand at Hollywood scriptwriting and finally became the happy wife of an advertising executive; of porphyria; in Manhattan...