Word: cincinnatis
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Gift of Gab. Time was when pro ballplayers were "tobacco-chewing rowdies" who ran out their brief careers with little to show for their days on the diamond. Of the nine regulars on the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings, first big-league team of all, only Shortstop George Wright went on to become a successful businessman (Wright & Ditson, sporting goods). The rest stayed only a pitch or two ahead of the bill collectors. One died in a San Fran cisco poorhouse; sentimental fans saved another from a pauper's grave. Growing prestige, says Professor Gregory, has opened a new world...
...Ohio State's Howard L Bevis, 70, since 1940 the University's affable but hard-driving president. A graduate of the University of Cincinnati ('08) with a doctorate from Harvard Law School, Bevis served as state finance director under two Ohio governors, after a stint on the state Supreme Court and five years at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration arrived at Ohio State to usher in its era of greatest prosperity and controversy. He aroused student and faculty resentment by insisting that he screen all campus speakers, earned the censure of the American Association...
...those in charge of screening the annual 9,000 applicants for teaching jobs in Cincinnati's public schools, the papers of the clean-cut, 38-year-old Negro seemed in perfect order. True enough, Henry Fordham seemed nervous when interviewed. He was, reported the board of interviewers, "not too coherent," and he used "big words, often incorrectly." But he did have a document to prove that he had a degree from Westminster College in Cochranville, Pa. He had-or so his papers indicated-taught in Newark, Del., and he had testimonials from a John Wagner at Pennsylvania...
...Yourself. Had the Cincinnati school system been dealing with any other sort of man, the case against Fordham might have ended there. But though found out, Fordham insisted that he had a legal right to his full year's pay. His Westminster documents, he added, were not really forgeries, for he himself had created the college with seat at Cochranville, Pa., and, had given himself and his wife degrees. To back up his argument, Fordham turned to the dictionary, where a college is defined as "a collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits." He, his wife...
Open Verdict. In Cincinnati, after firing Meter Reader Robert V. Lyons when he was charged with stabbing Mrs. Audrey Evers Pugh on a meter-reading visit to her home, the civil service commission gave as its reason for his dismissal: "Discourtesy to the public and failure of good behavior...