Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Played 36 holes of golf, including one round with his new friend and old adversary Bob Taft as partner; Taft with a 94, Ike with a 93 lost to their opponents, a Washington attorney, John McClure, and Stanley Rowe, a Cincinnati elevator-company president...
...Cincinnati, Audio Controls Corp. offered a gadget to throttle TV commercials. Named Blab-Off, the device is a simple, remote-control sound switch, advertised to eliminate the "long, loud, vulgar, boring commercials that force their way into your living room." While the advertising spiel goes off, the TV picture stays on, so that viewers can tell when the commercial is over and switch the sound on again. Price: $2.98. Advertisements for Blab-Off have been refused by The New Yorker Magazine, the New York Times and the Herald Tribune, possibly because the sales pitch was right up there with...
...Braves will have to play above their heads to take fourth, but the sheer exhuberance of new-found fans should lift them there. The Cards, who have come a long way since the prime of Brecheen and Slaughter, will take fifth. Pittsburg, Chicago, and Cincinnati, the other Western contributions, have nothing, and in decreasing order...
...class elections, Nancy R. Fisher of Washington, D.C. and Moors Hall was elected president; Ann W. Boyd of Highland Park, III, and Saville House, vice-president; Lois E. Herr of Hohkus. N.J. and Edmands House, secretary; and S. Jean Ross of Cincinnati and Harvard Hall, treasurer...
Died. Fred Toney, 63, National League pitcher (1911-23); of a heart attack; in Nashville, Tenn. Tall (6 ft. 4 in.), lumbering Righthander Toney made major-league history in 1917 by pitching a ten-inning no-hitter for the Cincinnati Reds while Chicago Cubs Pitcher Jim Vaughn pitched nine hitless innings, let in the Reds' winning run in the tenth...