Word: ted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most club owners were pleased with the new order. Said Ted Collins, who bought out Dan Topping's Brooklyn-New York Yankees to merge with his own New York Bulldogs: "It can't be rougher than what I've been going through ... In four years I lost more than a million dollars." In a voice trembling with emotion, John Mara, president of the football Giants, cried: "The whole thing is wonderful...
Boston's Ted Williams, one of baseball's most talented and temperamental stars, stirred up a storm last week without moving a muscle. All he did was to win (for the second time in his career) the American League's award as Most Valuable Player of the year. Boston was pleased, but Manhattan sportwriters erupted with such comments as "greatest farce ever perpetrated in sports in the guise of an official poll." They wanted to know why the award, voted by the Baseball Writers' Association, had not gone to somebody on the pennant-winning New York...
...catalogues the rise to television fame of a comic who specializes in gag-stealing and belligerent self-interest, and stops at nothing to keep an audience laughing. The movie includes an endless parade of vaudeville turns with Berle running through his television repertory, throwing in some slapdash imitations of Ted Lewis, Al Jolson, Bert Lahr, et al. Though most of the skits are single-set affairs shot by a rigid camera, there is nothing static about the movie. Berle's heavy cavortings energize the screen like a buffalo stampede. The fact that his comedy is so desperately anxious...
Breaststrokes Larry Ward and Chuck Hoolzer and distance men Ted Norris and Jerry Gorman are the missing persons. Ex-captains Gorman '48-'40) and Hoolzer ('47-'48) and Norris graduated in June, and Ward is unavailable for personal reasons...
Leading goalie prospects are Johnny Chase and Phil Clark, both of whom saw considerable action last season, and sophomore Ted Cook...