Word: babe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours after the deed, and this section is the most fascinating in the book. A few days after the murder, Leopold went out with his girl, and she read him Lamartine. There are other tantalizing and incongruous glimpses of Leopold's cozy Chicago background. His family called him "Babe"; his aunt was "Birdie"; Richard Loeb's mother was "Mompsie...
Such pre-game gamesmanship recalled the New York Yankees of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, who pumped batting-practice home runs into the stands like grapeshot before the first World Series game of 1932. Demoralized by the sight, the goggle-eyed Chicago Cubs faded in four straight games. Similarly unnerved by news about the Sooners, the overrated Panthers never got started...
Died. Oliver Norvell ("Babe") Hardy, 65, chubby, splenetic half of the inseparable team of Laurel & Hardy, who churned out (1927-45) about 300 silent and talkie slapstick films (Babes in Toyland, Way Out West, The Devil's Brother, Blockheads) ; of the effects of a paralytic stroke he had in September, 1956; in North Hollywood. Georgia-born, bulbous Ollie sang on showboats while studying law, eventually wended his way via vaudeville villainry to Hollywood where he met (1919) skinny, sad-eyed Stan Laurel, onetime understudy to Charlie Chaplin. Two of America's few genuinely creative comedians, interested more...
...said St. Louis Manager Fred Hutchinson before a game with the Giants. Musial agreed. But he played anyway, hit two home runs and two singles as the Cards won, 8-0, and pushed his lifetime total of extra-base hits to 1,140. Only Lou Gehrig (1,190) and Babe Ruth (1,356) have hit more...
Otherwise, the local lineup will remain the same, with Tom Bergantino at third, Bob Cleary at second, Babe Simourian at first, Bob Hasting at short, Matt Botsford at right, John Getch at left, and Phil Haughey catching...