Word: bronx
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...busy getting ready for the big leagues, squeezing rubber balls to build up his hand and arm muscles (he still does), hoarding his dimes to buy a good glove. His throwing arm was soon strong enough to win bets from the unwary, and there are those in The Bronx who still claim that the 14-year-old lad once cleared the Claremont Parkway elevated station from a block away...
Paved Playing Field. For the fun of it is the only way Cleveland's Rocky Colavito has ever played baseball since he discovered the game existed as a toddler back home in The Bronx. Rocky was the youngest of five children born to Rocco Colavito, a sturdy, hard-working iceman, and Angelina Spodafino. Rocco and Angelina came separately to the U.S. in the early '20s from Bari, Italy, met and married in New York City. Rocky's boyhood heroes were his big brothers, Dominick and Vito, who taught him to throw and hit on the paved playing...
...Bittner showed that breast cancer in certain mice is transmitted by a factor, now accepted as a virus, in mouse mothers' milk. This led to the establishment of mouse "dairies," and the painstaking milking of tens of thousands of rodents. In 1951, Dr. Ludwik Gross of The Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital injected something (evidently a virus material) from leukemic mice into newborn mice, got a high incidence of leukemia and some odd tumors to which little attention was then paid...
Slugger Colavito, 25, is a rugged (6 ft. 3 in., 190 lbs.) lad, whose rippling biceps seem to make visible bulges on the television screen. The son of a Bronx truck driver, Rocky grew up in the shadow of Yankee Stadium, played ball just across the street in Macomb's Dam Park. Naturally, the Yankees were his boyhood heroes. Naturally, the Yankees gave him a tryout when he was only 16, but let him get away when the Indians topped the Yankees' half-hearted bid with a still modest offer of $3,000. Last year, in his second...
...Lawrence, Francis E. Fendell '59, of Leverett House and Brookline, John M. Ferren '59, of Kirkland House and Evanston, III., Thomas L. Fisher '59, of Adams House and Omaha, Neb., Robert R. Foster '59, of Kirkland House and Princeton, N.J., Daniel M. Fox '59, of Leverett House and Bronx, N.Y., Arthur Freeman '59, of Adams House and Belmont, Howard K. Fuguet '59, of Lowell House and New York City, Edmund B. Games Jr. '59, of Winthrop House and Camp LeJeune, N.C., and Paul Gardner Jr. '59, of Kirkland House and Bausman...