Word: bickfords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...constituent. His attacks on Harvard were purely superficial: he knew all the members of the Porcellian Club by their first names and he had a strong friendship with several important members of the faculty. He maintained a "midnight table" for himself and his friends at the Hayes-Bickford cafeteria. Most of the time, these "friends" were students...
Traditionally the advanced student took his lodgings where he could find them, and generally high rents in Cambridge often meant he found them far away. The quality of his meals was directly proportional to the padding in his wallet. This meant Locke-Ober's occasionally but the Hayes-Bickford often. In either case, dinner table education was nothing to the graduate student but a memory from his college days. Education for the graduate student tended to be a tense business rather than the congenial occupation it had been before...
...runs in the eighth inning gave Brooklyn the decision in the first game. The Braves took a 4 to 1 lead in the nightcap, but homers by Roy Campanella and Jackie Robinson and a key double by Campanella provided the margin of victory. Carl Erskine was the winner, Vern Bickford the loser...
Bunched back of the Phillies were the Brooklyn Dodgers, who started off like runaways and then, with mediocre pitching, became the season's biggest disappointment; the fast-moving Boston Braves, supported by outstanding pitching from Warren Spahn, Johnny Sain and Vern Bickford; the St. Louis Cardinals, held down by too many batting slumps; the New York Giants, who had surprised everybody by winning 17 out of 18 games, then abruptly dropped three out of four to the Dodgers last week...
...ninth inning the strain began to tell. Bickford walked two Dodgers. "I was really nervous," he admitted later. Then, with two men on base and one out, Dodger Outfielder Duke Snider banged into a double play, ending the game and giving Bickford his no-hitter.* Final score: Boston 7, Brooklyn...