Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Picked by many preseason seers to hang on to their national championship, Louisiana State University's Tigers fumed for the first half as Rice's quick-kicks rocked them back on their heels; but they came back in the second half with sturdy, sprinting All-America Halfback Billy Cannon leading...
...second-place Cleveland Indians faded in the American League pennant race, terrible-tempered General Manager Frank Lane complained that Manager Joe Gordon would need a miracle to win, added that he was eying four or five other men for the job next year. Gordon promptly quit, and an offer promptly went out to the leading candidate on Lane's little list: the terrible-tempered Leo Durocher, former manager of the Dodgers and Giants, who quit his $65,000-a-year job with NBC-TV with the announced intention of returning to baseball...
...surreal ravings still tell a real story -of a young university graduate educated beyond his background through the goodness of the welfare state, frustrated in a nation living in twilight, a second-class citizen in a society where the first-class citizens "spend their time mostly looking forward to the past." He has captured his wife Alison (Mary Ure) from the enemy above. With her and his business partner (excellently played by Gary Raymond), he lives in an attic in a Midlands town so bleak that it seems to smell of soft coal and leftover herring. There, University Man Porter...
Nevertheless, both A.M.F. and Brunswick are going abroad, where automated tenpin bowling is almost unknown. Brunswick has built commercial installations in Lebanon and Italy and signed a contract to convert J. Arthur Rank-owned movie houses into bowling alleys in England. A.M.F. this month automated the second bowling alley in Stockholm, will soon build similar facilities in Denmark, Belgium and Australia. With the expensive promotions and plush environments, A.M.F. and Brunswick hope to build bowling overseas up to the scale...
Born. To Groaner Bing Crosby, 55, and Cinemactress Kathy Grant, 25: their first daughter, second child (Bing's sixth); in Los Angeles. Name: Mary Frances. Weight...