Word: sticks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strategic Scalping. In the days when they still could call their land their own, American Indians got their exercise from a game called baggataway. It involved as many players as happened to be available, a field of any convenient size, a small ball, and long sticks looped with a rawhide mesh. Running up a score came second to the thrill of rapping an opponent over the scalp with "accidental" blows from the baggataway stick. Any brave who shirked his duty could count on a beating from the switch-equipped squaws who ranged the sidelines...
Then French Canadians adopted baggataway and softened it up a little. But what the Canucks called lacrosse (because the stick looked like a bishop's crosier) was still mayhem on the lawn. Today, in its ultimate refinement, lacrasse is played by ten-men teams on fields 110 yards long. Modern players are not too proud to protect themselves with helmets, shoulder pads, arm pads and long, ribbed gloves. Almost anything goes in the effort to move downfield and toss an India rubber ball into a netted goal, 6 ft. square. The ball can be carried, thrown or batted with...
...Stick Men Gone Wrong. Claire McCardell works in a tiny cubbyhole above Seventh Avenue, surrounded by button boxes, swatches of material, scrapbooks and half-finished dresses. She has an artist's sense of color and a sculptor's feeling for form; wherever she goes, she keeps both eyes peeled for new ideas. "With these dames," says her partner, Adolph Klein, "you don't know where they get their inspiration. It may be from the crack in the wall." With Claire, most of the inspiration comes from the fabrics that salesmen are forever trying...
...even vote. Still, the end seemed to justify the means. Proper Fun. Alf never finds time to go to the track. ("I'm too busy working out the form and collecting information around town.") But he admits he has done pretty well. Says he: "Nothing else interests me. Stick with me, bet within your means, and you'll have fun." One afternoon last week, Alf gave the clubhouse punters three successive winners: Elladora, a 6-to-1 shot; Grand Statute, a 10-to-1 surprise; and Running Water, a 3-to-1 stake racer that survived a tough...
...those tender days, Pat recalled, Mickey took her to dinner at his mother's, gave her a ring and told her to stick around until May, when his brother would inherit some money, and he could borrow $20,000. "Then," Pat testified, "he said we could be married, and his wife would not have to live in an unbecoming style." But Pat wanted to get married right away, and suggested that they both get jobs and live "even in a cold-water flat." Mickey was horrified. "I couldn't allow my wife to live that way," he said...