Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston's aging (40), terrible-tempered Slugger Ted Williams, the coming of spring carries inevitable splinters of physical woe. Last week, a fortnight after he first winced at a pain in the shoulder, Red Sox Star Williams shambled glumly into Boston's Lahey Clinic. Doctors studied his pinched nerve, began treatments. Ever-hopeful Ted, who has been benched almost a dozen times in his long career by such ills as a broken collarbone, a fractured elbow, ankle sprains and virus attacks, hoped to be at the season's opener, April...
...Fort Lauderdale, Fla., spring is greeted with an extra force of cops. This year, to do the welcome up properly, the lawmen set up a satellite police station squarely on the ocean beach. The fortification did not do much good: the 20,000 spring-vacationing collegians who began taking over the town two weekends ago behaved in the same sunstruck, beer-propelled way as have their predecessors for the last 20 years. That is, they grilled themselves medium-rare all day, beach-boozed all night, and blew the foam off the early hours by decanting sand sharks and alligators into...
...Rite of Spring. Costumes for the revels run neither to elegance nor imagination: when they are not in bathing trunks, the boys wear deck pants, and the girls put on Bermuda shorts, usually one size too small. Not too surprisingly, little that is really calamitous happens to Fort Lauderdale or its student invaders. During his coffee break, one defender of the law was able, without looking very hard, to arrest five students for sousing in public. But last weekend, as police prepared to abandon their beach outpost until next season, their blotter listed few cases of more serious wrongdoing...
Probably nothing can head off an eventual sociological study of the Fort Lauderdale rite of spring. But one girl's comment should help. Asked why she made the migration, she answered with a simplicity that needs no analysis: "This is where the boys...
...apple-cheeked Eddie Fisher, also entranced, agreed with the customers. Nostrils flaring, he made it plain that all his songs were for Liz-Tonight Won't Be Just Any Night, It Happens Every Spring. Then Eddie flashed an arch smile for the rest of his fans. "I opened here two years ago," he said. "Since then, nothing much has happened." Having thus wrapped up his marriage to Debbie Reynolds and seven months of sharing headlines with Liz, Eddie ran through the rest of his repertory and retired to his dressing room. Elizabeth followed, trailing Mamma, Papa, secretaries, agents, flacks...