Word: muscleman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...muscleman of the squad were the only scorers. Robert Forsyth came in fourth in the 35-pound weight throw with a heave of 51 feet, 8 1/2 inches. Taking a fifth place, Jeff Tootell completed the scoring, putting the shot 48 feet, 7 3/4 inches...
...Breaks. The one thing about the A's that everybody admits is good is its young, hard-throwing pitching staff. The star is trigger-tempered Phil Marchildon, a muscleman from a Canadian lead mine, who throws a fast ball that shimmies and shakes. The box-office draw is big (6 ft. 42 in.) Lou Brissie, war hero with a game leg (TIME, May 3). Connie's other starters: baby-faced Carl Scheib, 21, solemn Joe Coleman, 25, and two others temporarily on the bench...
...Crisler player has to have savvy: a brainless muscleman couldn't remember all Crisler's complex plays. Michigan's current squad is scholastically above the general student average at Ann Arbor. Crisler's system is built around nine basic delayed hits and the same number of "quick hits." But all 18 can be run from seven different formations: a single-wing (balanced), a single-wing (unbalanced), the five-one, the short punt, the "T," man-in-motion, and something he calls the "300." These, plus nine basic passing plays and some "Specials," bring the total...
...enterprise in the world, his empire comprises over 60% of Britain's theaters and 50% of its moviemaking. It holds in fee tributary production, distribution and exhibition companies in Canada, South Africa, Australia and the U.S. The sun never sets on the emblem of his pictures: a gilded muscleman (ex-Boxer "Bombardier" Wells) swatting an eight-foot gong...
...that had helped him filch at least $1 million in union dues, and blackmail the czars of Hollywood on a Hollywood scale. Staring coldly back at Willie Bioff's fat, pointing finger was an all-star police lineup: Gunman Paul ("The Waiter") de Lucia; pistol-packing ex-Capone Muscleman Phil D'Andrea; Beer-war Veteran Charles ("Cherry-Nose Joy") Gioe; Machine-gun Expert Louis ("The Man to See") Compagna; Frank ("The Immune") Maritote, alias Frankie Diamond; 14-time indicted Ralph Pierce; John Rosselli and Newark's Louis Kaufman...