Word: suits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hulking teen-ager stood by the shotput ring in his track suit, the muscles in his 17½-in. neck bulging, his 50-in. chest heaving in easy rhythm. Dallas Crutcher Long III spoke almost casually of distances never before achieved with the 16-lb. shot. "I should hit at least 66 feet by the end of the year." he said...
...heaved it a prodigious 63 ft. 4 in. in a freshman meet. The field sloped too much to qualify the toss for a world mark, but it brought Parry O'Brien himself hustling down from the stands. He rushed to the dressing room, put on a track suit, and registered 63 ft. 6¾in. Said O'Brien: "I just hope I can fight him off for another year or two, but it's going to take some doing." Just a month later, in Santa Barbara, Long officially matched O'Brien's world mark...
...Times & Bad Times. When Larry Adler left the U.S. in 1953. he seemed finished. Once he had earned as much as $200,000 a year with his harmonica; suddenly he was ignored by employers who could not stand his noisy political ways, almost broke from prosecuting an inconclusive libel suit against a charge that he was a Communist. But when he finally came back, a four-week engagement at Greenwich Village's Village Gate stretched on to ten. And all of a sudden it was good-money times again...
...Suit yourself," said Clint and let them pass onto the dock. Many little children, many massive guardians, were also on the dock, as well as several attendants in sailor hats and T-shirts...
...which capacity he speedily made an impressive international reputation, and last fall he came to America (which he had visited every year since 1952) to write for the New Yorker. And so to Master Owen's living room at Winthrop House, where he appeared last Sunday in a maroon suit and loose knotted tie: a tall young man in his early thirties, with a battery of firmly held, well-expounded, and well-supported opinions...