Word: babes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mickey was called Sonny and at seven months Sonny could walk around backstage. At one year he could already say: "I'm not going to do that." He was ready to make his debut. He did so by interrupting a serious duet of Sid Gold and Babe Latour. Dressed in his backstage jeans, Mickey brought down the house by ambling out from the wings in the middle of their act and piping Pal of My Cradle Days. After that first performance Sonny...
...patched-up cripple, in his 89th race, had set a new track record (2 min., 1 1/5 sec.) and had added $86,650 to his earnings-to become the biggest money-maker ($437,730) in the history of horse racing. With ear splitting cheers, Seabiscuit took his place alongside Babe Ruth, Bobby Jones, Bill Tilden as one of Sport's immortals...
Birthdays. Hoosier Humorist George Ade, his 74th; with a quip: "This birthday isn't very welcome, but I guess it can't be avoided"; George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, his 46th; ditto: "Darned if I get any fun out of birthdays...
...opened backstage in a gaslit provincial vaudeville theatre, with performers peeping at a newborn babe lying in a trunk. "Whose brat is that?" a woman asks, is answered "That's Jerry and Helen Cohan's boy." Suddenly, out of the trunk rises a tiny hand waving a tiny flag...