Word: bronx
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come up through the minors. After fanning 152 opponents in 115 innings as a senior, he was snapped up by the Newark Bears of the International League, which had recently become a Yankee farm team. After chalking up 11 victories to only six defeats he was summoned to the Bronx at mid-season...
During the U.S. evacuation of the Hungnam beachhead last year, a key outer defense point was a ridge on the exposed eastern flank. For 30 hours an infantry platoon of the 3rd Division, commanded by ist Lieut. Harry E. Sutton, 30, of The Bronx, beat off enemy attacks, refused to retreat even when part of the U.S. line was overrun. Lieutenant Sutton won the Silver Star for leading a bayonet charge which dug out the enemy and restored the position. Greater honor, perhaps, than the Silver Star was the fact that his fellow soldiers and superior officers referred...
Died. Henry W. (Harry) Armstrong, 71, who at 17 wrote the music to Sweet Adeline; after long illness; in The Bronx, N.Y. Called My Old New England Home when written in 1896, the song was not published until seven years and several revisions later, eventually spread through vaudeville, tavern, and singing society to become the nation's favorite drinking ballad. Composer Armstrong, who also wrote / Love My Wife, but, Oh You Kid, made close to $100,000 from Sweet Adeline...
Small World. In New York City, Samuel Grove, 26, discovered to his chagrin that the Harlem poolroom operator to whom he tried to sell two suitcasefuls of clothing was the tenant of the Bronx apartment from which he had stolen the clothing several hours before...
Each year, the letters multiplied. They came by the dozen, then the score, then by the hundreds. All over Italy, it seemed, people knew of "Frank's Barber Shop, 629 Westchester Ave., The Bronx, New York, U.S.A." Francesco toiled to answer them. To get old clothes he plagued his friends, neighbors, customers, the men at the station house; he haunted Salvation Army stores and the Jewish thrift shop. He sent every cent he could possibly spare...