Word: wunderkinder
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...such issues. Was the manager a sour drunk? Was the superslugger a tightwad? No matter. Write only about the games. Emotion, indeed humanity, was irrelevant. You can read a season of sports pages from 1951 without learning anything of the interplay between the fading patriarch (DiMaggio) and the bucolic Wunderkind (Mantle...
With a little coaxing, he tells of the big showdown with Elk Grove High School, which was led by Bill Cartwright, who now plays center on that wunderkind, 29-2, University of San Francisco team. Cartwright was averaging about 50 points a game, give or take a dozen, but on this particular evening he was held to 14 by Kirkland...
...success of the Columbia wunderkind and New York's other collegiate squads is once again proving the old bromide that exciting winners on the hardwood can be just what the doctor ordered for a city seeking a new lease on life...
...Hubert Laws and pianist McCoy Tyner move in. Hubbard dazzled Harvard crowds last year when he coached music and stood up President Bok in The Learning for Performers Series. Hubbard has not progressed as much as hoped for from the time he broke in as an 18-year old wunderkind. But he is up in the top ten trumpeters playing today. Laws is a rarity; a lead man on flute: Not in the Eric Dolphy bracket, Laws is nevertheless more than competant on the flute. He is very much into the jazz-rock scene despite his usually classical instrument. Tyner...
...lopsided 62%-to-29% lead over Ford, Carter seemed supremely confident of victory. During those precious summer days at home in Plains, he spent more time working out what he would do once in the White House than what he would do to get there. Surprisingly, the Wunderkind who conquered the party in the spring with a nearly flawless strategy did not have a similarly well-thought-out master plan for the battle against Gerald Ford...