Word: showmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. George Preston Marshall, 72, owner of the National Football League's Washington Redskins and one of the game's most successful showmen; of a stroke; in Washington. For a mere $150 in 1932, Marshall bought the franchise for the floundering Boston Redskins, soon moved the team to Washington, where he gave the fans Slingin' Sammy Baugh at quarterback and dazzling marching bands at halftime. The football was sometimes very good (divisional titles in 1940, '42, '43, '45)-and the show always was-to the extent that Marshall boasted he never had a losing...
...they stand on the threshold of success, officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are in a state of public stoicism and private gloom. Their triumph has become their travail: having progressed from orbiting a 31.5-lb. Explorer satellite to the Apollo lunar landing program, they are like showmen who brought off a spectacularly successful act and are now having trouble deciding upon an acceptable encore...
...PRODUCERS. Writer-Comedian Mel Brooks's first film is an uneven joy ride with two canny Broadway showmen (Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder) who set out to make a fortune by staging a flop...
...PRODUCERS. Writer-Comedian Mel Brooks's first film is a wildly funny joy ride with two canny Broadway showmen (Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder) who set out to make a fortune by staging a flop...
...these slurs? Clay has not even had his day in court yet. The answer, at least as far as the sportswriters are concerned, is pretty clear. Men with flair and irreverence are not welcome anymore in sports. Look for the clean, humble guy. And beware of showmen like Bill Hartack, Wilt Chamberlain, Phil Rogers, and Bo Belinsky...