Word: foxed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Secrets. At Abbey these days they call McGuire "The Fox." Riding the bench as though it were a bronco in full buck, McGuire baits officials ("I must hold the Carolina record for technical fouls"), indicates uncontrollable wrath by rising ominously from his seat and taking off his coat. Behind him, as if on signal, Abbey rooters stand to doff theirs in sympathy. Showman McGuire has also outraged basketball purists by offering to buy every spectator an ice-cream bar if Abbey lost-it did, but the ice cream was donated free by a manufacturer-and by insisting that there...
...which it lives and all the surrounding territory in a 15-mile radius are declared "infected areas." At the height of this year's outbreak, most of Scotland was posted and only two English counties north of London were out of quarantine. Even sportsmen and gourmets were affected: fox hunting was banned in certain areas, racing pigeons could not be transported to and from Northern Ireland, and wild stag -a favorite seasonal dish-was swept from table. From Dorset to Angus, husbandmen feverishly telephoned neighbors to discover if a new outbreak had occurred, isolated themselves from visitors for fear...
...picture may never be finished. Insurance men made an interim decision last week to challenge the actress' original declaration on the state of her health. If Cleopatra crumbles and the insurers prove that Elizabeth Taylor did not have nearly $3,000,000 worth of toothache. 20th Century-Fox will lose the total cost to date of the picture...
...Alan Fox, manager of the Poets' Theater, said that although "the whole place is gone, we are not going to quit. We have survived some pretty rough tragedies." The Theater lost all of its ing equipment, props, and records. The estimated the theater group's losses about $2,000, all uninsured...
...Fox asked all actors and subscribers get in touch with a temporary office at Mt. Auburn Street so that records could be re-established...