Word: casey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sophomore year for the Class of 1933 was also a year of considerable activity in athletics. Barry Wood '32 sparked a 13 to 0 victory over Yale, and Edward Casey '19 replaced Arnold Horween '20 as varsity head coach...
...Switching lineups as steadily (but never as successfully) as Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, the St. Louis Cardinals' Fred Hutchinson finally decided that Bonus Baby Dick Schofield belonged at short, that Outfielder Ken Boyer belonged on third. And that left no place for Veteran Al Dark, the aging (35) utility infielder St. Louis got from the Giants in 1956. Rounding out his twelfth season in the majors, Dark went to his fourth team, the Chicago Cubs, in an even trade for Jim Brosnan, a husky (6 ft. 4½ in., 215 lbs.) righthanded pitcher...
...Though it is topped in the American League by the 1947-56 record of Casey Stengel's New York Yankees: eight pennants, seven world championships, only one season in second, one in third...
...cold compress." While he derided "soapbox philosophers" and "commercial uplifters," Critic Nathan preached, cajoled and bullied to carve out a niche for Eugene O'Neill, the first U.S. dramatist to achieve worldwide renown. He worked as hard to popularize such famed European playwrights as Sean O'Casey, Ferenc Molnar, and Luigi Pirandello. Says the New York Times's Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson: "Nathan had as profound an influence on the American theater as George Bernard Shaw on English theater...
...inveterate party-dodger, who was lured to the restaurant by his author-wife, Oriana. The "sentimental works," as Variety called it, included a citation from Actors Equity, encomiums from such absent admirers as William Saroyan and Clifford Odets, and a letter in which choleric Irish Playwright Sean O'Casey grew moist-eyed over Critic Atkinson's "splendid defense" of the theater "throughout the times of many great events, alarums, sennets and disputes...