Word: saskatoon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even in Hollywood, though, somebody has to pay for the groceries, so last week Daddy Johnny Cash put away his .45, unlimbered his guitar, and hit the road to rustle up some cash. In Saskatoon, Duluth, Hawaii or Australia, wherever tall (6 ft. 1 in., 195 Ibs.) Johnny sounds off with his own "country" ballads in his deep, twanging baritone, the tour is sure to pay off. For these days the jukebox set is again on a crying jag: hangings, murders, deaths, burials and blighted loves are the subjects they want a man to sing about. And ever since Johnny...
When the boy was ready to enter high school, his family unhesitatingly sold the homestead and moved to Saskatoon. In school John read the speeches of British parliamentary orators, developed his own florid Victorian style by speaking from a stage while an uncle listened critically from the back of an empty auditorium. Moving on to the University of Saskatchewan, young Diefenbaker joined the ranks of the campus apprentice politicians who ran the debating society, heatedly argued national issues in a mock Parliament. He devoured political biographies (a special hero: Lincoln), won better-than-average marks and a forecast...
...Maple Leafs' ballpark for a dog show-especially one that got the magnificent ballyhoo laid down for last week's hoked-up "world heavyweight championship" squabble. The figures: that elegant gypsy, Light Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore, and Canadian Heavyweight Champion James J. Parker, otherwise known as the Saskatoon Statue...
...fight itself, "Doc" Kearns and Co. need not have worried about the talents of such an old (42) trouper as Archie Moore. With a skill perfected in tank-town arenas and sweet-scented boxing clubs all over the world, Archie wasted no time half-blinding the Saskatoon Statue with slicing jabs to the eye. Then, the fight well in hand, he carried his man for nine rounds, gave the crowd its $148,500 worth before the referee mercifully stopped the slaughter. "I could have finished him in the eighth," Archie confided later, "but I stepped back just to show...
...York Rangers' training camp in Saskatoon, Sask. was a dismal place last fall. Every hockey player there had read in the papers that his team was a cinch for the National Hockey League cellar. They were all resigned to their fate-until their new coach, former Ranger Center Phil Watson, started giving them the needle. "Last place?" snarled the fiery Canadian. "Why, I never finished last in anything in my life-not even in a poker game. Last season the rest of the league scored 210 goals against the Rangers while the Rangers made a lousy 150. This year...