Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Milwaukee was shouting the same Scripture last week. For Henry Louis Aaron, a lithe young Negro outfielder, stretched out his hand, smote an eleventh-inning pitch into the center-field bleachers, beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 4-2, and cured a civic inferiority complex. After predicting it brashly for five summers, Milwaukee citizens finally saw their boast come true. The Braves had won a National League pennant...
...Army as a lieutenant in 1942, held down various Stateside desk jobs for four years, emerged as a lieutenant colonel ("That shows the Army wasn't very fussy about the way it promoted people"). Returning to North Dakota, he built a prosperous general practice, worked hard for every civic drive and organization in sight (Elks, Knights of Columbus, American Legion, Forty and Eight, Exchange Club), and won statewide respect as executive director of the North Dakota Bar Association...
Time was when men brought up on ordinary, old-fashioned baseball sneered at the upstart as a sissy sport. No more. Everybody plays softball.* Churches, civic groups, industrial organizations and all the armed services sponsor teams that compete in hotly contested leagues. Softball has been taken up by neighborhood taverns, the choruses of Broadway shows, the Ku Klux Klan, the atomic scientists of Los Alamos. Some 25,000 teams work hard all summer for a shot at the end-of-the season series...
...give it to 'em . . . When they fool with the white race they're fooling with the strongest race in the world, the most bloodthirsty race in the world." Hot-eyed Rabble-rouser John Kasper mentioned the name of one of Nashville's Negro civic leaders and dramatically held up a rope, then talked hazily about dynamite...
...time, the opera house became part of the Shubert chain of theaters, accommodated the touring Metropolitan and Chicago Civic companies, ballet, big musical comedies, even prizefights. But the 3,000-seat house, with its huge maintenance costs, did not pay its way, and last week it seemed as though Impresario Hammerstein's prediction would at last come true. Sold by the Shuberts, the Boston Opera would be stripped for probable use as a parking lot or storage warehouse...