Word: sported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most commanding figure in all of pro sport, Wilton Norman Chamberlain, 29, just naturally has been discussed by physiologists, analyzed by psychologists, investigated by the Internal Revenue Service, and interviewed by newsmen, by his count, "more than 5,000" times. The body of literature devoted to his life and exploits runs to perhaps 2,000,000 words of prose and 200 of poetry, chock-full of such fascinating revelations as that he sleeps naked, trims his beard with fingernail scissors, has an IQ of 127 and hates the nickname "Wilt the Stilt." No one has seemed able to agree...
...Come on, be a sport. Nothing will happen to you," Segal promised. So Ethel reluctantly agreed, began making preparations by buying a cheap $4 house dress. But friends, including Vogue Editorial Director Alexander Liberman, objected. Said he: "Ethel, this is for posterity. As a fashionable woman, how can you wear anything but Courreges?" In the end, she settled for a $45 copy of a Courreges dress that she already owned, but her white Courreges boots were for real. Then, with her hair done by Kenneth, she showed up with her husband at Segal's studio for the pour...
...didn't want to finish," she admits, "but then I didn't want to be a bad sport." So she let Segal smear her face and place Saran Wrap over her Kenneth coiffure, which preserved for history its general silhouette, if not the actual hair...
Officially Golf became a major sport last year, so now the team members do not quite pay for everything themselves. But Harvard facilities are still meager: a one-man practice net in Dillon Field House. The team practices at The Country Club in Brookline and plays at the Myopia Hunt Club, 45 minutes from Cambridge. As a result, golfers are continually looking for some new illicit place to knock out a few balls...
Alas, he arrived in Manhattan too late on St. Patrick's Day to march in the Fifth Avenue parade, even though he did sport a fine green tie. Britain's Prince Philip, 44, in a green tie? "Just a coincidence," chuckled the consort. Thus avoiding controversy and the I.R.A., Philip continued his U.S. tour to promote Variety Clubs International charities and British exports, proving himself quite a salesman while firmly denying that that was his mission. "Any country that can sell tea sets to Russians, export one million bedstead knobs in 1964 and persuade foreigners to buy water...