Word: cincinnati
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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...
...controls ten oil companies and pipelines, a Cincinnati soap factory, two Texas waterworks, sizable chunks of five Rio Grande Valley banks, two small newspapers, bus systems in Austin and Waco, a San Antonio wholesale house, a silverware factory in Mexico, an inland waterway barge line, the Dixie Bus Lines, a Dallas chili plant, and 22% of Henry Holt & Co., Inc., Manhattan book publishers...
...land of violent opinions, quiet Judah Magnes has won the respect of Jews, the British, and Arab moderates. He has not always been so quiet. As the editor of the college annual at the University of Cincinnati, he once raised such a commotion when a dean tried to censor him that the university's president was replaced during the resulting rumpus. As the young rabbi of a Reform Temple in Brooklyn, he led a funeral procession up Manhattan's Fifth Avenue to mourn pogroms in Czarist Russia. His fashionable congregation objected, and Magnes resigned. During World...
Brewers, dentists, laundries and jewel graders have also made inquiries. A hospital hopes that the siren can be made to sterilize the air in its infants' nursery. General Mills would like to know whether it will coagulate the dust that plagues the packaging of its dry cereals. Cincinnati is ready for an immediate.demonstration of the power of ultrasonics to lay the smoke and dust for which that city is renowned...
...Cincinnati Zoo, over the din of squawking birds and roaring cats, grand opera is performed nightly in midsummer. Washington's National Zoo is notable for the contributions it gets from the White House-Teddy Roosevelt gave it a Somali ostrich, Calvin Coolidge a pigmy hippo, Franklin Roosevelt an Archangel pigeon...