Word: battin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early Years: Born Nov. 12, 1900, in Elizabeth, N.J. His father, Peter J. Mitchell, was editor of a funeral directors' trade journal. His mother, Anna Driscoll Mitchell, now 74, is still living in Elizabeth. Cinemactor Thomas (High Noon) Mitchell is his uncle. Graduated from Elizabeth's Battin High School in 1917, could not afford to go to college, got a job in a grocery store...
...Fannin' and battin'" the shanks of a red-eyed Brahman bull, Harley May of Sul Ross College came winging out of the chute, absorbed three spine-cracking jolts, and ended up flat on his back on the tanbark of Fort Worth's Will Rogers Coliseum. Grinning sheepishly, May got up, dusted off his skintight blue jeans and admitted ruefully: "I didn't do so good...
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