Word: soled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moving as well after the 1957 season. Before embarking on his career as a skipper, Alston kicked around in the minor leagues as a first baseman. In 1936, he got his one--and only--major league plate appearance. Ten points if you can select the correct outcome of that sole appearance...
Heavyweight wrestler Kevin Wattles went 1-2 late last week as Harvard's sole representative at the NCAA wrestling championships in Iowa City, Iowa...
...passages from his diaries indicate, Getty was not indifferent. But he seems to have short-circuited his feelings with workaholism, a socially acceptable form of avoidance. Money did not become the sole arbiter of emotions until 1973, when his hippie grandson, Jean Paul III, was kidnaped in Italy. Publicly, the wizened billionaire refused to pay ransom, a sound decision since he had 14 other grandchildren and did not want to set a tempting precedent. But after the boy's freshly detached ear was delivered as a warning, the old man lent young Getty's father, Jean Paul...
...bush-league redundancy "consensus of opinion." Both authors have a good handle on Getty's complex business holdings and the right touch when dealing with the old man's harem, the collecton of seasoned beauties who lived at Sutton Place and fought capped tooth and lacquered nail for sole possession of their host. Their efforts were not well rewarded; each received a paltry, if not insulting, legacy from the richest man in the world. The bulk of his estate went to the Getty Museum in Malibu, an institution that tax-sheltered much of its founder's collection and finally shielded...
...Rolling Stones gather not much. They did get together long enough recently, however, to make their first album in two years. Called Dirty Work, it features eight new Stones songs, but the album's sole video, which premiered on MTV last week, is a golden oldie, Harlem Shuffle. "We have a lot of influence," explains Ron Wood, "and we'd like to turn the kids of today on to what we consider our roots." As for working as a group again, Mick Jagger says, "It was like going back to an old shoe." Stones in an old shoe...