Word: wonderboys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Palace. Training his slingshot on the Democratic machine, Wonderboy Sagan at 26 helped elect Independent State Representative Abner Mikva, who was voted "outstanding freshman" of 1957 by the Illinois legislature. Taking on the Chicago Theological Seminary, the Herald last year leaped into the fight that saved Architect Frank Lloyd Wright's famed Robie House from demolition to make way for a dormitory. As circulation hit 8,500-350% more than the old Herald-Publisher Sagan was able to say: "The paper is worth ten times what we paid...
What Roy carried in the bassoon case was Wonderboy, a bat he had whittled for himself from the center of a tree struck by lightning. And when Pop finally gave him his chance, he made beautiful music with it. He belted homers almost without trying, but he was more than just a slugger. It developed that he could throw like DiMaggio and field like Tris Speaker. In short, he was a natural. The whole team caught fire from him; within a few weeks, the Knights were back in the pennant fight...
Alexander S. Yakovlev, 46, handsome, dashing, longtime wonderboy of Red aviation. At 21, he turned out his first plane, a light trainer, by the time he was 30, had built 18 different types, most famous of which was the Piper Cub-like UT-2. His YAK fighter series was rated by French pilots as the best short-range interceptors of World War II. A daredevil and woman-chaser, he likes to drive fast, test his own planes, has had so many narrow escapes that Stalin gave him a Zis (Packard) sedan and restraining motorcycle escort. Now working on advanced rocket...