Word: winners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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M.F.L. as M.L.F. "When your name is read," nominees had been instructed before show time, "please recover from the ecstatic shock as quickly as you can and push your way immediately through the crowd of all your sudden friends." And everyone tried. Lila Kedrova, 45, a surprising winner as best supporting actress for her near-flawless portrayal of a desperate and dying courtesan in Zorba the Greek, started forward and then stumbled into a Zorba-like bear hug from Star Anthony Quinn. "Has it really happened?" she gasped. "It has," he assured...
...nominee for her Mary Poppins role. And there was Audrey Hepburn, the girl who got the movie part but no Oscar nomination. Audrey was there by Academy request to fill in for stroke-stricken Pat Neal and present the best-actor award. And there was Rex Harrison, a sure winner who had played with both Eliza Doolittles...
...record. Another promising sophomore is Sonny Siebert, who had a 7-9 mark but a fairly good 3.23 ERA. Among the veterans on the staff are Gary Bell 8-6); Jack Kralick (12-7); Ralph Terry, an acquisition from the New York Yankees; and Dick Donovan, a 20-game winner in 1962 who has had two lacklustre seasons since then. If a few of these pitchers have good seasons, Cleveland could finish as high as third...
...Carl Yastrzemski, who led the league in batting in 1962. Boston's pitching staff is named Dick Radatz. The 6-5, 235-pounder is the best relief pitcher in baseball, and he got plenty of opportunity to work last year. Unless hurlers like Bill Monboquette (a 20-game winner in '62), Dave Morehead, and Earl Wilson can better their 1964 performances, Boston could have a disastrous season...
...Bold Lad: a three-length victory in the Mowlee Purse; at Aqueduct. Fully recovered from the painful "splints" (tumorlike growths) on his forelegs that had kept him out of action since last October, Wheatley Stable's six-time stakes winner sped six furlongs in 1 min., 10 2/5 sec., stamped himself as a strong contender for May's Kentucky Derby...