Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Third Game moved the series to Ebbets Field and the Dodgers came to life. Sore-armed Johnny Podres celebrated his 23rd birthday by pitching the best ball of his life. With Outfielder Hank Bauer on the sidelines now, with a pulled muscle, and Mickey Mantle hobbled, the Yankees never had a chance. Their righthanded fireballer Bob Turley lasted only 1⅓ innings. Morgan, Kucks and Sturdivant did little better. Mantle managed to hit a home run, but Campanella matched him and Robinson once more ran wild on the base paths. Final score: Dodgers 8, Yankees...
...birthday when next present...
...start, the rebel leaders (notified by prearranged "Happy Birthday" telegrams that the time to strike had come) commanded only a few thousand men. They seemed little more dangerous to Perón & Co. than the June 16 rebellion, snuffed out in six hours by inner-circle generals guarding their vested interests in the Perón regime. But this time rebel leaders showed spectacular dime-novel pluck and luck. While Generals Lonardi and Videla Balaguer were holding Córdoba, Vice Admiral Isaac Rojas daringly boarded the navy's flagship cruiser, locked the Peronista fleet commander in his cabin...
...Governor of New York Thomas E. Dewey took off on a monthlong, "entirely personal" air trip around the world, during which he will visit twelve countries. Cruising from port to port in the Mediterranean aboard Shipping Magnate Aristotle Onassis' luxury yacht, Swedish Sphinx Greta Garbo spent her 50th birthday at sea. Confident that she would swim the English Channel round trip and non-stop to international acclaim, California's Florence Chadwick set out thoroughly greased from Dover, but after giving up a mile off the French coast, was beached by irate French customs officials, who took...
...fled from the premises of the Tube City Lumber Co. with $5.20 in change stuffed and jingling in his shoes, Herbert W. Gailey, 33, explained: "I save dimes." Surprise! Near Warren, Ohio, after her husband bought an 1,800-lb. elephant to give her "something different" for her birthday, Mrs. Orla Drum proudly said that it was just what she wanted, planned to put it with the other animals in the zoo she keeps on her farm...