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...This pressure is getting me," he muttered. It was getting everybody: desperately trying to feed Gordie the puck, his teammates passed up dozens of easy shots for themselves, lost three out of five games. "We've got to get this goal and get it over with," grumbled Coach Sid Abel as the Red Wings slid to fourth place...
Engine trouble develops early when Jimmy Durante, as a fugitive named Smiler Grogan, goes hurtling over an embankment. Three cars and a truck stop beside the road, and out spills a lineup from Lindy's: Sid Caesar, Milton Berle, Jonathan Winters, Buddy Hackett and Mickey Rooney. Before he dies, Durante tells the group about the $350,000 buried in a park some 200 miles away-then, as he breathes his last, his foot flies out and kicks a bucket. Kicks a bucket...
...rendered unto Caesar much less than is Caesar's, at least so say the Internal Revenue folk who figure that from 1954 to 1960 Comedian Sid Caesar, 41, missed out on paying more than a quarter of a million dollars in taxes. The way I.R.S. adds it, Sid failed to declare quite a bit of dividend dough and allowed himself about $64,000 worth of expenses that were nondeductible. Sid's lawyers, understandably indignant, have asked that the Government's $262,694 claim be thrown out as erroneous...
...forward pass-the tantalizer, the equalizer, something everyone in the stands could see-they were on their way to owning the world. The forward pass was not invented by the pros; it had been around since 1906. But in the hands of such quarterbacks as Sammy Baugh and Sid Luckman, the pass became the most awesome offensive weapon in the history of the sport -a bolt of lightning that could strike anywhere, any time. Scores soared. The T formation grew flankers and split ends; pro coaches even made room for a third end in the backfield (they called...
...stylist") and Baylor's Don Trull ("a football genius"). Even the Ivy is blooming: up on Manhattan's Morningside Heights, Coach Buff Donelli is touting Junior Archie Roberts as the best quarterback in Columbia's history-better than Gene Rossides or Paul Governali, better even than Sid Luckman...