Word: bostons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tommy Boston Jr. of Cartersville, Ga., was taken to St. Joseph's Infirmary in Atlanta, where Surgeon William A. Hopkins found that he had a short stub of gullet extending one-third the normal length down from his throat, then nothing. Dr. Hopkins led this stump out through a hole in the neck, so Tommy could get rid of saliva. For feeding, he ran a tube into the stomach. This worked well for six years, until Tommy was big enough to undergo the operation. Then Dr. Hopkins pushed the gullet stump back into place, stretched a piece of Tommy...
...Lean Detroit Righthander Jim Bunning, chomping impassively on a wad of gum, hit a batter and walked two, but struck out twelve others, got Red Sox Slugger Ted Williams on a routine outfield fly for the last out to wrap up a 3-0 victory at Boston's Fenway Park, become the first major leaguer to pitch a no-hit game...
NORTHEAST AIRLINES will try to gain altitude with a major re-equipment program. For $15 million, it will buy nine British Vickers Viscount turboprops, expects to put them into service between New York, Washington, Boston, Montreal next month...
Nevertheless, the program's staunchest boosters are the companies working under its umbrella. Boston's Godfrey L. Cabot, Inc., which bought the first policy in 1948 on its British carbon-black plant, points out that an insured company gets a big boost in its credit rating. General Mills, after insuring a bean-processing setup in Pakistan, was so sold on the insurance that it made plans to insure all new foreign investments, "though we hope never to have to collect...
...Bois, 74, Brooklyn-born Greenwich Village painter, art critic, autobiographer (Artists Say the Silliest Things), father of Painter Yvonne Pène du Bois and Writer-Illustrator William Pène du Bois, uncle of Broadway set and costume Designer Raoul Pène du Bois; of cancer; in Boston. With George Luks, John Sloan, William Glackens, Du Bois was an honor student in Robert Henri's pre-World War I Ashcan School of American art, i.e., realists. With his richly colored, firmly fleshed figures (Bal des Quatre Arts, Carnival Interlude), Du Bois-whose work is represented in Manhattan...