Word: winner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like Decathlon Winner Bruce Jenner, Leonard imagined his place on the Wheaties box was secure. His error, confusing the commercial opportunities awaiting white heroes and black heroes, was soon revealed, along with a paternity suit, a sadly overblown welfare department formality. Leonard never denied he was the father of Juanita Wilkinson's boy child. But the mean publicity that followed was the clincher: if Leonard hoped for his own 7-Up commercial, or anything else, he would have to fight...
PRINCETON 17, DARTMOUTH 11--Only the prelim to the main event, in which Princeton's Tiger Inn takes on an all-star team from the Dartmouth fraternities in an 80-man free-for-all. Winner take nothing...
...this point, Fleming says he has conceded the tackles race to Margolis, but the sacks winner could be determined tomorrow--at Yale quarterback Joe Dufek's expense...
...mean there isn't slight friendly rivalry involved. At the beginning of the season, the two placed a bet on which would finish the year with more tackles, and which would come up with more sacks. A dinner goes to the victor in one category, drinks to the winner in the other...
When Big Jim Thompson voted on Tuesday morning, a winner's smile flashed across his broad face. Only two days before, a Gallup poll showed the bluff 6-ft. 6-in. Republican Governor leading his mild-mannered opponent, Adlai Stevenson III, by 16 points. But when Thompson went to bed at 2 Wednesday morning, the corners of his smile had turned downward: he was leading by just over 1%. By midday Thursday, as votes were still being tabulated, he was wearing a full-fledged frown of dismay: with more than 3.5 million votes cast, the once confident Thompson...