Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...fights from Manager Frank ("Blinky") Palermo. What seemed to nag at Williams most was that he had turned down more than $180,000 in bribes to throw fights, including one offer of $100,000 to go in the tank for Kid Gavilan. Concluded Williams with bitter hindsight: "I should have taken the money...
...forth to people who come in off Seventh Avenue. Wild Bill Davison, Roy Eldridge, Henry ("Red") Allen-they all show up at the Central Plaza, a mammoth jungle gym where teen-agers bring their own bottles and where there are two cops in uniform, so it seems, for every kid...
Rice & Beans. Explaining Y.D.I.'s methods, Pete Thomas says: "You don't get anywhere by antagonizing a kid. You got to feel their feelings of anger and uncertainty, dig? That way-out feeling of wanting to hurt and not caring who. This is why I think Y.D.I, is so great-it's the arroz y habichuelas [rice and beans] the kids need...
...supposition was that when the late Damon Runyon immortalized such citizens as Angie the Ox, the Lemon Drop Kid and Meyer Marmalade, he had largely consulted his own imagination. But last week, when Senator Estes Kefauver's antimonopoly subcommittee opened hearings in Washington on the fight racket, the characters who took the stand to describe the octopus grip of the underworld on U.S. boxing were pure Runyon-but Runyon without romance...
...sometimes take them on what we call 'Dream Trips' to different colleges. We'll all go up to a school like Harvard, Amherst, or Princeton; we'll walk around the grounds, talk to students, maybe go to a football game. It's not important whether or not a particular kid actually applies and gets into a school like this. What is important is that he think in terms of applying. We want him to feel he's good enough to compete...