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Hoak's Hoakum. Cincinnati's Don Hoak was first to set the rule writers working. Leading off second in a game with the Milwaukee Braves, Base Runner Hoak started for third when Cincinnati's Wally Post laced a grounder to short. Redleg Gus Bell, who had been holding first, took off for second. With his sharp infielder's eye, Hoak recognized the setup for an almost certain double play. With his sure infielder's hands he fielded the ball, tossed it to the Braves' astonished shortstop, Johnny Logan. "Hit" by a batted ball, Hoak...
Second Thoughts. In Cincinnati, Herschel Andrews, 22, on his way to the hospital after a 75-ft. plunge from a chimney scaffolding, was asked his occupation, replied. "Ex-steeplejack," was asked when he decided this, murmured. ''About halfway down...
...brighter day is dawning," cried the famed Horace Mann, "and education is its daystar." To the 200 educators who had come from all over the country to Cincinnati that day in 1858, the words of the main speaker were not just empty grandiloquence. One year earlier, they had met to form the first national organization that the U.S. teaching profession had ever known...
...tied up in mortgages and real estate, proportionately more than any other life insurance company. The Pru is the world's biggest private holder of home mortgages (500,000), one of the biggest financers of huge skyscrapers (Manhattan's Empire State Building, Chicago's Merchandise Mart, Cincinnati's Terrace Hilton Hotel), a strong backer of the new shopping-center boom. It supplied $8,000,000 for Minneapolis' new Southdale Center and $100 million for Los Angeles' Lakewood shopping center and for more than 7,500 houses in a new development surrounding the center...
Breach After Long Silence. In Cincinnati, Le Cameron Trent won a divorce after he testified that his wife "threw chinaware at me, tried to stick me with scissors, took a butcher knife and tried to cut my throat, and wouldn't talk...