Word: dicks
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...pros, is "a good journeyman linebacker who reacts like a bird dog." Able to sense sweeps and reverses, he consistently cracks through for the play-breaking tackle. A speedster, he blocked four punts while at Penn State. Robertson is known as "the black Dick Butkus." Like the Chicago Bears' star, he is a ferocious charger who is in on nearly every play. This season alone he accounted for 112 solo tackles and 45 assists. Weaver is regarded by many observers as the quickest man at his position. "Against any ordinary option," says U.S.C. Coach John McKay, "Charlie Weaver...
...colonies with the conclusion that more advantages were to be reaped from their trade as friends rather than as colonies." At the University of London, Charles' grandma, 70-year-old Queen Mother Elizabeth, shook a leg with the students at their annual ball. While dancing with shaggy-pated Dick Titchen, 24, in what he later described as "a sort of updated version of the waltz," she exclaimed: "Oh, what lovely hair...
Fran Tarkenton was apoplectic. Sportswriter Dick Schaap had given the New York Giants' quarterback a slim volume to pass the time on the New York-Boston jet. Tarkenton flipped the first few pages and wept through the last three chapters. Now, the night before the big game, the whole damn team was reading the thing with identical results. "Listen!" he telephoned Schaap. "This book is destroying the Giants just when we're supposed to be psyched up for the Patriots...
...Crimson's other winners were Bob Lawton in the medley (2:10.5), Dick Eisenberg in the required one-meter dive (153.20), John Burris in the backstroke (2:13.0), and Dave Strauss in the breaststroke (2:26.6). The freestyle relay team also...
...Celebrated Cases of Dick Tracy, 1931-1951 by Chester Gould. 291 pages. Chelsea House. $15. Despite 27 bullet wounds during the first 24 years of his adult life, Dick Tracy manfully survived the two decades here recorded. Inevitably, though, the collection is a celebration of scurvy rogues and criminal grotesquery (The Mole; Flattop; 88 Keyes, the larcenous pianist; Jerome Trohs), because the bad guys in Tracy are always more interesting than the detective and his crew of crime stoppers. Gould is a crafty if somewhat primitive storyteller, and this ponderous volume is still exciting enough to be read with something...