Word: blazek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because an Ashtabula bowler was kept at home by his wife's illness last week, one Mike Blazek of nearby Conneaut, Ohio, was recruited to substitute for him in the American Bowling Congress tournament, which was last week entering its seventh and final week in Chicago's huge Coliseum (TIME, April...
...factory worker who bowls thrice a week and averages 200, Mike Blazek was no blazing ball of fire on the Ashtabula team. In the five-man event, he bowled a creditable enough 610 (for three games), in the doubles he posted 614. In the singles, he started out even worse with discouraging scores of 171 and 145 for his first two games. But suddenly in his third game, Mike Blazek began to hear again & again the hallowed sound that is music to a bowler's ears-the clean, choral crash that means a strike. Eight, nine, ten times...
...Hiltons also cited the case of Rosa-&-Josepha Blazek, who were joined back to back, had one vagina, one rectum, but two uteri. Rosa bore a son whom both nursed. Later the pair were reported to have married one man. The 1918 epidemic of influenza killed them, aged 40, while in Chicago...