Word: slings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Injured tailback Matt Botsford watched the end of practice in street cloths with his arm in a sling. He is on the game list, however, which means he may dress for tomorrow's contest against Princeton. Dexter Lewis will also make the trip to Princeton but will watch the game as a spotter...
...fifth in total offense in the Ivy League before getting hurt in the Ohio game, has a bad elbow. Coach Lloyd Jordan reported, "I don't know exactly how he is, but I do know there isn't any break in the elbow. His arm is in a sling, and I imagine he'll be out for quite a while...
...that has to be smelled to be believed. The World's championship Rodeo in Boston Garden is wholly credible. From the incongruous bars of "Yours' to the closing "yowees" of the wild horse race, Boston Garden is a real, wild corral. All the best broncs are there: country Butter, Sling Shot, Pig Eye, Drunkard, and the best rides and the prettiest girls. Also The Range Rider and his Saddle Pal. The Range Rider wears blue suede shoes...
...advanced kind of platform is made only big enough to support the drilling machinery. The rest of the outfit, including crew quarters and all supplies, is carried in a tender: a good-sized ship tethered close to the platform. Pipes and other heavy objects are swung across by a sling running on thick cables. Liquid necessities travel in flexible hoses. If a hurricane approaches, the tender can take all hands on board and run for shelter. A rig of this type, belonging to Gulf Oil Corp., is now drilling off Corpus Christi, Texas in 67 feet of water, the depth...
...fine voice and better shape. Best of all, Jerome Robbin has discovered a dancer, Carol Haney, who scores the biggest personal hit since Carol Channing extolled the virtues of precious stones. Miss Haney, after proving in the first act that she is no slouch in the slither-and-sling category, dresses like a man for a dance number, "Steam Heat." By dint of talent and personality, Miss Haney overcomes the understandable audience disappointment at this deception and turns the routine into the evening's highpoint. She also sings the show's best novelty, "Hernando's Hideaway," a nonsensical little tango...