Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cincinnati, Ohio, December 27; Secretary: J. Gerard Heathcote, M.B.A. '23, 1331 Carew Tower, Cincinnati...
...Miss) HARRIETT L. VALENTINER Cincinnati...
Died. Joseph ("Shoeless Joe") Jackson, 63, one of baseball's greatest hitters (a lifetime average of .356 in 1,330 games), who was kicked out of organized baseball after he and seven Chicago White Sox teammates admitted they took bribes to throw the 1919 Series to the Cincinnati Reds; of a heart attack; in hometown Greenville, S.C. His part in the "Black Sox" scandal was complicated by the facts that he 1) was almost illiterate, 2) batted .375 in the series, 3) probably never received the $20,000 promised, 4) later repudiated his confession. In later years, from...
...They cut through solid marble to make his grave, and yet a little tombstone they put above him was from Vermont. They buried him in the heart of a pine forest, and yet the pine coffin was imported from Cincinnati. They buried him within touch of an iron mine, and yet the nails in his coffin and the iron in the shovel that dug his grave were imported from Pittsburgh. They buried him by the side of the best sheep-grazing country on the earth and yet the wool in the coffin bands and the coffin bands themselves were brought...
...E.C.A.C. adopts the Bushnell program it will undoubtedly come up at the N.C.A.A. meeting, scheduled for January 11 and 12 in Cincinnati, Ohio...