Word: sportsmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flames spread. Larence County Sheriff Dick McGrath ordered all women and children to evacuate the town. Says Game Warden Kenny Scissons, who helped break up traffic jams: "There weren't many sportsmen in that crowd when it came to seeing who was going to get out first." Cars lurched out of town, decked with clothing, rifles, bicycles and skis; the girls from the cribs on Main Street hustled out, carrying their treasured negligees. The wind shifted, driving evacuees onto alternate highways, only to shift capriciously again, pushing the traffic stream back into other roads...
...summer. The brothers spent most of their time hunting and fishing on the flats and marshy lands that flank the river. Chris Smith never bothered with high school; instead, he shoved off as a deckhand on the steamer Arundel, worked summers on the lake boats. But as vacationing sportsmen came to Algonac, Hank and Chris began building small boats for rent. Hank and he would search the woods for a walnut stump, dig it out and work up a naturally curved boat stem from stump and roots...
...fears about readying an Olympic plant at Squaw, he argued. After all, there were four years in which to build it, said he, and had not the governments of both California and the U.S. endorsed Squaw's bid? As for the town technicality, "We're all sportsmen here, not politicians." Squaw Valley won the bid, 32-30 over Innsbruck, on the second ballot...
Manhattan Restaurateur Toots Shor's motto in life has long been, "Having friends is better than having money." As the town's No. i host to sportsmen, writers and politicians, Shor built a reputation as a fabulous spender, was often broke but never for a moment lacked for loyal friends. Last week Shor had no lack of money, either. For $1,500,000 he sold his leasehold, which still has nine years to run, on his 51 West 51st Street restaurant, which he has operated since 1940. Purchaser: William Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp, which plans to tear...
...lure of the dollar. Last week a U.S. sports promoter named Leo Leavitt bragged that he had offered Elliott $248,000 for a two-year tour as a pro. Elliott admitted that he was thinking over the offer: "Wouldn't you if $248,000 were at stake?" But sportsmen Down Under took heart from Elliott's phoned statement to the Brisbane Sunday Mail: "I have my sights on a place on the Australian team for the 1960 Olympics...