Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...platform he mocks politicians with a peasant's shrewdness, mocks Paris with a provincial's scorn, mocks himself with rough humor. "We have been too long on all fours." he shouts. "That way we were perfectly placed to get kicked." He brags. Puffing up a paper bag, he bursts it with a bang, and explains: "If I did that in the Assembly, six or seven Deputies would be trampled to death in the stampede for safety." Once, returning from Paris lugging two huge suitcases, he quipped: "It's nothing much-just a couple of Cabinet ministers...
...years later, both sportswriters and novelists seem to have fewer reservations. In Bernard Malamud's The Natural (TIME, Sept. 8, 1952), there was the mystical intimation that major-leaguers might even have souls. In Bang the Drum Slowly, Novelist Mark (The Southpaw) Harris modestly stays closer to the bag. Look, he says, they are human, and their hearts can hurt as much as a spiked foot...
...president had not allowed the Cubs' protest. Undaunted, Evers tried again at the Polo Grounds. Fans were already swarming across the infield, but somehow, in the confusion, canny Johnny Evers got his hands on the ball (or a ball) and pushed his way to second. Standing on the bag, he called to the head umpire-the same Hank O'Day. This time O'Day surprisingly called Merkle out, ruled the game a tie. The Tinkers-to-Evers-to-Chance Cubs went on to win the playoff and the pennant-and took the World Series from Hughie Jennings...
...Alexander ("Sox") Calder Jr., 39, stepped into his father's shoes as president of Union Bag & Paper Corp., biggest U.S. maker of paper bags (1955 sales: a record $123 million). The elder Calder, 70, stays on as chairman of the board. After graduating from Dartmouth and Harvard Business School, young Calder started as a sales trainee in 1940, was made a director in 1948 and executive vice president in 1952. Like his father, he is a champion golfer...
French Leave. In Hartford, Conn., arrested with a large bag of shoplifted clothing, Marie Sequin explained that she was merely collecting for the "underprivileged children of France...