Word: thrilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bugged Terry was that people were forever comparing him with Joe. Since Terry had deliberately patterned himself after Baltimore's Johnny Unitas, the classiest-and probably the quietest-of pro quarterbacks, he wasn't sure that the other comparison was much of a compliment. So the biggest thrill of his high school career was beating Beaver Falls 41-21-scoring a touchdown in the process on an 82-yd. quarterback sneak. The film of that game, forwarded to Notre Dame by a scout, may well have been the one Ara Parseghian was idly viewing one day at South...
...most durable bandleader still hits 150 cities a year, playing mostly to packed houses. And so it was in Manhattan, where more than 900 of the faithful and 100 "Pennsylvanians" past and present gathered to toast Fred Waring's five decades on the bandstand. "The greatest thrill of my life," he said, and returned the salute by leading the Pennsylvanians in a nostalgic Waring blend of chorus and orchestra. Next week at 66, Fred's off on his 1966-67 country-wide swing, which he's calling "The First Fifty Years...
...Axelrod [July 29], TIME says "he delights in swimming in piranha-infested rivers just to prove that piranhas are not man-eaters." This is not in accord with my childhood memories of placing my hand against the glass wall of the piranha tank in the hometown aquarium for the thrill of watching these aggressive Lilliputians try to attack the hand...
...Thrill of Showing Off. The tastes of the audience, which ballots by mail for the winners (average weekly mail: 9,000 cards), are shifting. Going out of popularity are one-man bands, soft-shoe dancers, Dixieland, harmonicas and stringed instruments; coming in strong are folk singers, guitars, guitars and guitars. The Hour still has its share of artists who play rhythms with fire extinguishers, punching bags, bones, bicycle pumps, balloons, spoons, glasses and bottles-naturally, Geritol bottles...
...winners get no pay, only transitory glory. As Mack says, "People get enough of a thrill just showing off." Of course, the American Guild of Variety Artists estimates that 40% of its members got their start on the Amateur Hour. Some of the richest of them flunked their first test. One night 81 years ago, the audience awarded first prize to a South American who played the laurel leaf, while voting down another contestant, Ann-Margret. And in 1953, a swivel-hipped lad named Elvis Presley didn't get past the first audition...