Word: sportsman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With that, Boris Tchetveroukine, student, sportsman and crack sharpshooter, sat down. There was silence in the court. For five seconds, Boris rummaged in a briefcase, then stood up again. "Here," he announced, "are two documents with which I will convince you." Thereupon, he began blazing away with an automatic in one hand and a revolver in the other...
...long after sport-shirted Bill Veeck breezed into St. Louis and bought the hapless Browns, a pointed line was added to the score cards of their Sportsman's Park rivals: ''The Cardinals, a dignified St. Louis Institution." The note was good for a few tired jeers from fans who remembered the Cards' rowdy old Gas House Gang. But it was not the kind of hint to faze Showman Bill Veeck, who operates on the theory that baseball can be the greatest show on earth...
Brimstone Battle. The find was another feather in the cap of Manhattan Multimillionaire John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 47, capitalist, Yaleman, sportsman (polo and racing), soldier (Air Forces colonel), connoisseur of modern art (TIME, Aug. 27), philanthropist, Broadway angel (Life With Father), public servant (president of New York Hospital), and husband of one of the famed Cushing sisters (Betsy, ex-wife of James Roosevelt). Whitney is Freeport Sulphur's chairman and biggest stockholder. Along with Freeport's President Langbourne M. Williams Jr., 48, he got control of Freeport when both of them were still in their twenties...
Died. "General" Jacob Sechler Coxey, 97, eccentric businessman, sportsman and monetary theorist, whose stone quarries, racing stable, patent medicine, arsenic mines, ill-starred stabs at politics were all but eclipsed by the 1894 depression march on Washington of his "Commonweal of Christ" (known to posterity as "Coxey's Army"); after a stroke; in Massillon, Ohio. On Easter Sunday, 1894, seated in a phaeton drawn by his $40,000 thoroughbred pacer, well-heeled Employer Coxey and his unemployed tatterdemalions set out for the capital to pressure Congress into accepting his economic cureall: interest-free local bond issues for public works...
...Basketball in Russia begins with Stalin," explained the deadpan manager of the Russian team. "From Vladivostok to Leningrad, everybody plays," said Team Captain Ivan Lissov, who called himself a "master sportsman."** That was about all anyone could get out of the visiting Russians, who were whisked daily from the Soviet Embassy to Paris' Palais des Sports and back, under the watchful eye of a hollow-cheeked cultural attach...