Word: bairds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was gloom along the dingy staircase leading up over the grocery, and gloom in the drab corridor outside the apartment. But the Philadelphia reporter who climbed the stairs last week to pay a call on William Baird and his family found no gloom inside. Mrs. Baird had put some pork on for dinner. Her sons stood cheerful guard on the preparations as she called out, "Better watch that stuff or it'll burn up." One son, Robert, 20, could not walk, but he was as cheerful as the rest...
...William Baird, a $50-a-week roofer's helper, and his wife Mary first became aware of the fate awaiting their family eleven years ago when Robert began to have trouble walking. Doctors warned then that his disease might turn up in the other boys. They offered no hope of prevention or cure. Nobody knows what causes muscular dystrophy. Doctors know only that it often appears among several male members of the same family and is probably the result of a recessive gene which suddenly flares into prominence. It produces almost no symptoms beyond deterioration of the muscles...
...personal appearance of Danny Kaye lends class to the Technicolor version of Call Me Mister, which opened yesterday at the Roxy, Seventh and 50th. Betty Grable and Dan Dailey grace the "75,000 inch Technicolor screen" in the former Broadway success; and Yma Sumac, the Dunhill dancers, and Hill Baird's marionettes give the stage show remarkable variety...
Starting at center for the Crusaders will be six foot seven Jim Kielley, a sophomore from Brooklyn. Only one man of the first five is a senior; he is six one Wally Baird who will open at guard. The other guard will be sophomore Earle Markey, who scored 22 points in the Crusaders' only game so far, an 83 to 85 rout over American International College...
...Rowe, a sophomore converted from tackle, is the left guard on offense, teaming with Art Merriman. On defense, a sophomore combination of Peter Radulovic and Joe Mitinger takes over. Harold Woodsum, offense left end, is one of the most promising sophomores on the squad, as is center Baird Brittingham. Harry Gropp, a converted tackle, spells Woodsum on defense while the other end, Captain Brad Quackenbush, plays offense and defense and is very capable at both...