Word: sidekicker
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...Fred Muggs, Africa-born one-year-old, is the current rage of morning TV audiences. J. Fred, a cheerful little chimpanzee in rubber pants, is Dave Garroway's romping sidekick on NBC's 7 a.m. news show Today. Garroway uses J. Fred during lulls on the two-hour program, and since Muggs showed up fan mail and the show's rating have been boosted considerably. Explains Garroway: "Muggs's charm is his unpredictability-same as any animal...
Died. Anthony R. ("Tony") Gizzo, 52 Kansas City underworld bigshot; of a heart attack; in Dallas, where he had gone to visit son Robert Gizzo, jailed on a narcotics robbery charge. A sidekick of Political Mobster Charles Binaggio, who got his in a 1950 gang killing, Gizzo was named by the Senate crime investigators as the Capone mob's Kansas City gambling liaison...
...preliminary match, Sedgman's Aussic sidekick, Ken McGregor, steadied down his cantankerous backhand to edge Pancho Seguro, 4-6, 7-5, 8-6. The Down Under champ's win was but his sixth against 20 losses during the tour and came on the seventh service break of the final...
...Nationals, did it again last week. Next day Rosewall became the youngest player ever to win the men's singles title by blasting a relative veteran, 22-year-old Davis Cupper Mervyn Rose, 6-0, 6-3, 6-4. Then Rosewall and his 18-year-old sidekick, Lewis Hoad, walked away with the doubles crown. Gasped Rose: "What will he be like in another couple of years...
...York began to erupt with one scandal after another concerning his administration. His closest political sidekick, James J. Moran, was found guilty of engineering a huge fire department shakedown of oil-burner dealers-a shakedown which netted millions. Convicted Brooklyn Bookie Harry Gross told of paying off whole platoons of New York cops during the O'Dwyer era, and charged that Moran had once called a pre-election meeting of O'Dwyer and the city's top bookies...