Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rigueur among seven-year-old girls (who also whinnied occasionally) as the slouch among debutantes of the '20s-they were faithful to their hero, the clear-eyed Hopalong. Black Hopalong Cassidy shirts and Hopalong Cassidy pants were simple necessities; the more fashionable put on Hopalong Cassidy pajamas to sleep in a Hopalong Cassidy bed, had Hopalong Cassidy wallpaper (which outsold every design in the U.S. this year), ate Hopalong Cassidy cookies and peanut butter and rode a Hopalong Cassidy bicycle (which has handle bars shaped like steer horns...
...Meanwhile, he is sending his 18-year-old brother to college, supporting his bride of four months in a Los Angeles motel, playing a few rounds of golf (low gos) in the mornings, and driving a new Buick. Records were all right, Willie figured, but nothing to lose sleep over...
...shakes a metaphor like a wet dog shaking himself dry. A man is broken "on the wheel of a dream"; the night wind passes "like a sail across/ A blind man's eye"; an old house "looks as though the walls had cried themselves/ To sleep"; a happy character "sits and purrs/ As though the morning were a saucer of milk"; the fields of grain move "like a lion's mane"; flowers gather "like pilgrims in the aisles of the sun"; the morning leaves "the sunlight on my step like any normal/ Tradesman." Fry's most persistent...
...Bernstein ignored the warning and kept on working, but without the old zip and zest. Last May he had a real heart attack-a shutdown in a branch of the artery which feeds the heart muscle. He recalls that after he went back to work, "when I went to sleep I wasn't sure I'd wake up. I lived in fear." So far his history had paralleled that of hundreds of thousands of U.S. victims of coronary disease...
...headlines. Samples: OLD PETE, BROKE, IN VET HOSPITAL; ALEXANDER COLLAPSES; GROVER ALEXANDER SENT TO BELLEVUE; NECK BROKEN, ALEXANDER WALKS OUT OF HOSPITAL. Last week, at 63, Old Pete's troubles came to an end. Back in St. Paul, Neb., his old home town, he died peacefully in his sleep. Baseball fans, remembering the one-foot difference between hero and bum, remembered the record of one of baseball's greatest pitchers: 373 games won,* 90 by shutout, winning percentage...