Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clay pigeon. [Attorney General] Howser must have had a hell of a tip." He was sure it was not a local bookie ("Every bookie in this town is a very close personal friend of mine," said Mickey firmly), nor imported Eastern gunmen. "I call New York, Chicago and Cleveland regular," said Mickey. "I'm a well-informed man. And I didn't get no rumble of anything going on ... If [Frank] Costello was moving in, we'd all be dead...
Doctors at Cleveland's Lakeside Hospital flocked to the operating room after reading the bulletin board notice: "Am-ygdalectomy today . . . 11a.m." Instead of a rare cutting job, the operation proved to be a routine tonsillectomy...
...Amygdalectomy" (literally, removal of almonds) has slipped into the dictionaries because medieval medicine men, looking at tonsils, were reminded of almonds. The Cleveland notice was posted by Dr. Normand L. Hoerr, professor of anatomy at Western Reserve University and managing editor of the New Gould Medical Dictionary, published this week (Blakiston Co.; $8.50). Dr. Hoerr thinks that all such terms should be discontinued. Also ripe for cutting, he felt, were terms built on researchers' names. Example: the New Gould has no entry for Bright's Disease (chronic nephritis), mentions it only in a note on Richard Bright...
...Item for a song. The roof leaked so badly that the city editor kept a bucket on his desk in wet weather. Publisher Nicholson spent $350,000 in a new plant and equipment, boosted salaries, hired as editor Reporter Clayton Fritchey, who had won a Pulitzer citation for the Cleveland Press by sending six grafting police officers to prison. Under Editor Fritchey, the Item became the best-dressed newspaper in New Orleans with its short, snappy stories and eye-catching pictures. Circulation climbed from 67,000 to 97,000. This week 45-year-old Editor Fritchey got-and accepted...
Connie Mack's hustling Philadelphia A's kept pecking away at the win bag, but never seemed quite able to beat the Yankees when it counted most. In Cleveland, the World Champion Indians were still trying to figure out how they happened to be trailing by six games (after a bootstrap pull-up from seventh to second place). But nothing matched the Boston Red Sox's consternation; the Yankees were calling them "cousin" after walloping them in five games...