Word: standouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowd believed it. When the band played, it sang at the top of its collective voice. And even when the cheerleaders called for "Sock it to 'em," it cheered. Dick Clasby, sidelined tailback and offensive standout, was at the rally last night as a spectator. "Tomorrow it'll be different," he told the crowd around...
...were beaten out of the pennant in a postseason playoff. The Giants, rated as red-hot contenders in spring training, had bumbled into an eleven-game losing streak at the beginning of the season, could never seem to get going again. But in mid-August, behind the standout pitching of Sal Maglie and Larry Jansen, they had started to move, and won a phenomenal 37 of their last 44 games. With the pressure on, the Dodgers dropped five of their last eight games. Now they needed to beat the Phillies, even to stay in the race...
Crime Syndicated (Tues. 9 p.m., CBS-TV). Since his standout performance as special counsel of the Senate Crime Investigating Committee last March, Rudolph Halley has become a political candidate (for president of the New York City Council), a Hearst columnist and a TV actor. In Crime Syndicated, his first sponsored show, Halley takes his audience on a Cook's tour of the underworld. Highlight: a dramatized sketch about dope peddlers, which came to the surprising conclusion that crime does pay, showed how a Government witness was intimidated by hoodlums in court and then murdered before she could testify again...
Hyde had been used principally as a defensive left end, to relieve Crowley. This season the assignment may fall to six-foot-two Frits Drill, former junior varsity end, Freshman standout Bill McCourt injured a knee during the summer in California and did not report for the first couple of weeks of fall practice...
Hyde had been used principally as a defensive left end, to relieve Crowley. This season the assignment may fall to six-foot-two Fritx Drill, former junior varsity end, Freshman standout Bill McCourt injured a knee during the summer in California and did not report for the first couple of weeks of fall practice...