Word: takings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crew have inspired a fanatic band of followers who stand four deep in the mezzanine of Yankee Stadium to cheer them on. To get a look at the field, they build platforms out of anything handy-beer cans, stray cartons, or trash baskets. And when the Giant defensive behemoths take over-particularly deep in their own territory, where the tackles are roughest-the mezzanine turns into a howling, back-pounding jungle...
Intuition & Muscle. "It's uncanny the way Huff follows the ball," says the Green Bay Packers' Coach Lombardi. "He ignores all the things you do to take him away from the play and comes after the ball, wherever it is thrown or wherever the run goes. Sure, sometimes he goes with the fake. But that's when the ball is there...
...left more of a mark on him than the slightly twisted nose in his handsome, square-jawed face. Sometimes he worries that the mean streak he works up for his profession of violence will affect him permanently. "You've got to watch that you don't take it off the field with you," says Sam. "You get guys who say, 'Oh, you're a big football player. Well, I don't think you're so tough.' You feel like poppin' them...
Doll or Trust? With virtually every other pop music figure holding pieces of music-publishing firms, why did ABC take action against Clark? Obviously, to avoid the charge that Clark was "riding" or "hyping" songs published and recorded by his firms on the Bandstand program. Although Bandstand played some of Clark's own tunes that became hits (Tallahassie Lassie, Okefenokee), he and Mammarella insist that they were played only because they were popular already. But Clark has also spun his Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, which is just now beginning to climb into the big time. Clark insists...
...subcommittee was trying to get the facts on Musicman Clark, investigators were widening their search. New York County D.A. Frank Hogan subpoenaed the financial records of eleven record companies; one owner immediately announced that he had a pile of canceled $100 checks endorsed by disk jockeys. The story would take some time to unfold. "The last thing most people in this industry want is to clean it up," admitted one musicman. "It's too lucrative for too many people...