Word: lasts
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Chicago Graduate Gibson imperturbably testified that Carbo was one of "the facts of life" in boxing. In order to ensure that Carbo would make the boxers he controlled available for I.B.C. fights, said Gibson, the I.B.C. paid more than $40,000 to the ganglord's wife whose last known address proved to be half a mile out in Florida's Biscayne...
...After jealously watching the National League's Dodgers strike gold in sports-happy Los Angeles, the American League last week decided to horn in on the rich market next season with a new team called the Angels. Biggest angel behind the Angels: Horse-Opera Star Gene Autry, 53, who has remained a baseball fan since his semipro playing days back in Oklahoma. Autry plans to broadcast Angel games on his prosperous chain of radio and TV stations, part of the empire (oil, real estate, cattle) he has rounded up as king cowboy...
...champion: Missouri, which was trounced by Coan and Kansas, 23-7. ¶He had little speed and his batting swing was a convulsive twitch, but the New York Yankees' Gil McDougald was smart enough to become in his time the most versatile infielder in the majors. Last week, at 32, McDougald proved again how smart he was by quitting the game after two fading seasons (1960 average: .259) to devote himself to his prospering building-maintenance company...
...Almost overnight Hearst turned his wan and unimpressive present into the gaudy forerunner of a 26-paper chain,* and within four years he had sent it soaring ahead of the rival Chronicle on the way to a supremacy reflected in the proud masthead boast: "The monarch of the dailies." Last week, after nearly seven decades as Northern California's biggest and most influential newspaper, the Examiner was deep in a fight to see who would be king of the mountain. Once again its opponent was the Chronicle -though the heavy loser in time might prove to be San Francisco...
Where the Examiner on Old Man Hearst's death in 1951 had a 70,000 circulation lead, the latest official figures now give it only 559 more subscribers than the Chronicle (circ. 281,240). In advertising, the Examiner still leads, but the lead is dwindling: in the last four years the Chronicle has increased its yearly ad linage by 6,000,000 lines, while the Examiner has added only...