Word: things
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Winning is not the most important thing about football...
...only thing."-Vince Lombardi, ex-Green Bay Packers coach...
...good thing for the Baseball Writers' Association that its members decided last year to bestow two Cy Young awards, one for each league. Otherwise, how could they have selected the outstanding pitcher of 1968? In the American League, there was Denny McLain, 24, the Peck's Bad Boy (TIME cover, Sept. 13) who posted an astounding 31-6 record to lead the Detroit Tigers to their first pennant in 23 years. In the National League, the St. Louis Cardinals' Bob Gibson, 33, boasted equally stunning statistics: a 22-9 record that included a phenomenal 13 shutouts...
...spectacular to direct, partly because his movies have seldom done very good business, partly because the studio executives do not care for his bellicose, independent ways. "The brass made me put a prologue and epilogue on Invasion of the Body Snatchers that damn near ruined the whole thing," he recalls. "And after the first screening of Riot in Cell Block 11, all the executives filed out without saying a single word. I sometimes feel like a prophet without honor in my own land...
...rest of society," most O'Neill biographers have read "Father." But James O'Neill comes off rather well with Sheaffer. He thinks that the old man was justified when he declaimed to his sons in his best matinee voice: "Ingratitude, the vilest weed that grows." For one thing, he did not, as his sons charged, hire a quack to attend Mrs. O'Neill after Eugene's birth, and so "in all probability was guiltless" of his wife's addiction. Sheaffer concludes that Eugene's standing quarrel was really with his mother, because...