Word: yo-yo
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...Delany himself set a four-year record for collecting relay hardware: ten first-place gold watches. ¶ After watching some older kids try out for the New York City Parks Department's yo-yo championship, Stephen Awerman, an eleven-year-old from Jamaica, L.I., decided that he could hold his own with the big boys. He spun his yo-yo through the required figures-spinner, walking-the-dog, breakaway, over-the-falls, around-the-world, three-leaf-clover, creeper, rock-the-baby-then unreeled 312 loop-the-loops to latch onto the title. ¶Haled...
Owner Brecker spiced Roseland's entertainment with female prizefights, yo-yo exhibitions, sneezing contests, and dozens of highly publicized jazz weddings, uniting couples who had found romance in Roseland's violet twilight. His finest inspiration, until it was banned by the police, was the dance marathon. To avoid the wrath of Mayor Jimmy Walker, he once carted a truckload of still-dancing marathoners to an excursion steamer and took them out beyond the three-mile limit, where they all became violently sick at the rail...
...taut ship with an easy hand. One of the few public reprimands he ever handed out was when one of his destroyers strayed out of formation. Over his TBS (Talk Between Ships) radio, Burke snapped to the offending skipper: "Mister, that's a destroyer, not a yo-yo...
...Lonely Hunter. In Wesson, Miss., the Enterprise carried a classified ad: "I am going to sell everything I can and will sell cheap. I have many odds and ends that will be a help to many as everything is so expensive. I have jewelry galore, a beautiful yo-yo bedspread that won first prize at the fair. Hoping I can sell out to go where I can be with someone, thanking one and all in advance...
...Stewart, as always, is an infinite gangle of charm. He combat-flew his way up to full colonel and command of a B-24 wing in World War II, but to watch him shyly fumbling, in his usual screen style, at the controls of the world's fanciest yo-yo may give less comfort to his friends than to his country's enemies. Actress June Allyson, who looks so normal it almost seems she was not born but arrived by statistics, has been Jimmy's wife before (in The Stratton Story and The Glenn Miller...