Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still a question), Johnny Temple (.306) at second, Roy McMillan at short, and the slugger Frank Thomas at third is almost equal to Pittsburgh's. GusBell, Jerry Lynch, and Vada Pinson (the best looking rookie in the league) rank high in a league filled with good outfielders. Ed Bailey is easily the best of the catchers...
...Trial of Dr. Adams, by Sybille Bedford. Superbly styled proof that London's Old Bailey often makes for better drama than...
...Helmet, Red Sweater. Thirty-two hours had passed, and Moss was reported to be "weakening fast." At 2 o'clock Tuesday morning, in answer to a broadcast appeal for an "expert potholer, less than 5 ft. tall, weighing under 112 Ibs., exceptionally athletic and with unlimited courage," June Bailey, 18, appeared, a slip of a girl wearing a red helmet and red sweater. She was instructed to break both of Moss's collarbones to help narrow the width of his shoulders and perhaps free him. But before she could enter the shaft, the trapped man had died...
...British, or writes about them with a more intriguing combination of solemnity and excitement. The 1957 murder trial of Dr. John Bodkin Adams, the longest (17 days) in recent English history, was easily one of the outstanding legal dramas ever to be seen at London's Old Bailey. Its major appeal did not rest on sex, money or gore; it came from the encounter between law and medicine, two intricate, big, imprecise and sometimes deadly disciplines. British Author Sybille Bedford, noted for her brilliant novel The Legacy (TIME, Feb. 11, 1957), has recreated the trial in a fascinating book...
Meanwhile, in New York's Madison Square Garden, Freshman Ted Bailey impressed K. of C. Meet spectators with a third-place performance in the weight event...