Word: carl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strike-Out Kings. Not since the days of Dizzy Dean and Carl Hubbell had National Leaguers been so proud of a pitcher. At 24, halfway through his second big-league season, Cincinnati's Ewell Blackwell was the National League's strike-out king. He was baseball's top pitcher, with 15 wins, 2 defeats. He had also pitched 1947's first major league no-hitter (TIME, June 30). Already fans were comparing him to the great strikeout artist Bob Feller, who ducked last week's All-Star game because of a back injury (but pitched...
...Foreign Policy (Sat. 7 p.m., NBC). Topic: "Is the Marshall Plan Sound?" Speakers: Senators Tom Connally and Carl A. Hatch. Moderator: Sterling Fisher...
...doctor insisted on only one thing: they must all take a turn in postgraduate training in general practice. He wanted no "cockeyed specialists" in his family. The boys obeyed-but came out specialists anyway. Herbert (the eldest) and Paul became surgeons, William a pediatrician, Philip an obstetrician-gynecologist, Carl (the youngest) an eye, ear, nose and throat...
...college vacation). The rule had since been repealed, but Kelly Sr., now a Philadelphia contractor, vowed that a son of his would one day win the prized Diamond Sculls. Last week he was one of the thousands on shore who saw his son finish eight lengths ahead of Norwegian Carl Fronsdal, said: "I've waited for this day for years...
...last time big (220-lb.) Pitcher Carl DeRose had started a game for the Kansas City Blues, he could hardly sleep at night after the game for the pain in his arm. The Blues, a Yankee farm team, considered 24-year-old DeRose one of their most promising players, so they sent him off to the Yankees' trainer. He was advised to lay off for three weeks. Last week, exactly three weeks to the day, DeRose started against Minneapolis. By the third inning, his right arm was throbbing badly...