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...whole new breed of TV comedy-variety show has evolved. It is the local newscast. Or at least the subspecies of newscast that has adopted what the trade calls the "happy-talk" format. On such programs the anchor man, the weatherman and the sportsman have been supplanted by a happy-go-lucky bunch of banana men. They are not the old authority figures, but just-folks team players. Cronkite is out; Gemütlichkeit is in. What counts is not how the banana men relate the news, but how they relate to each other...
Cokes and Chorus Girls. How did the little-known Perenchio get that kind of money? And how does he plan to turn a profit? Perenchio put up none of the cash pot himself, but instead found a 24-carat backer. Jack Kent Cooke of Los Angeles. Millionaire Sportsman Cooke, now 58, had parlayed a $24-a-week job as manager of a radio station in Canada into an empire of radio stations and cable-TV companies. Today he also owns the Los Angeles Lakers (basketball) and Kings (hockey), and is part owner of the Washington Redskins (football). Cooke made...
Faithful Eye. The 17th century German hunter was nothing at all like today's typical American sportsman, who tramps through the woods in wool cap and squishy boots, hoping for a lucky shot. Venery was as ritualized as the catechism. A clumsy hunter was publicly chastised by "blading," a ceremony in which he was forced to lie down across a dead stag and receive three swats from the flat of a broad knife. All the hard work was done by the peasants, who erected the high cloth barriers or rope nets into which bear or deer were driven...
...underdog endured long after he achieved literary success. In 1948, he founded the Court of Last Resort, a private organization to aid prisoners whom he believed had been unjustly confined. He gave frequent testimony against capital punishment and often championed conservation projects against powerful interests. He was an enthusiastic sportsman who stopped hunting with a gun in favor of bow and arrow because he felt that no animal stands a chance against telescopic sights and high-powered bullets. In addition, he was a highly competent photographer, explorer and amateur archaeologist...
...understand, is concerned about the future of tennis, especially in Boston. So, with a little help from the Sportsman's Tennis Club, which hopes to start a grassroots youth movement in the city, and Pepsi-Cola, which was providing the prize money and the only beverages in the house. Bud became promoter of the first World Cup Title tennis championships, sort of a Davis...