Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rival Cleveland Rams had their own steamed-up passer, Bob Waterfield, whom not even near-zero weather could cool off. Besides his ball-handling magic and coffin-corner kicks, Quarterback Bob threw passes all afternoon, completed 14 of 27, two of them for the touchdowns that put the Rams on the championship end of a 15-14 score...
...Cleveland's high schools, about one in ten of the teachers were laid low by flu. In at least five, classes hardly missed a recitation last week. The teachers' places had been taken by a posse of students. At Lincoln High the 17-year-old football captain taught English and gym. Pretty Stella Bymakos stepped to the head of English 10B, and a scholar muttered: "Why couldn't it have been this week instead of last that I had to stay after school...
Stella and her fellow substitutes at Lincoln are members of the Future Teachers of America, who try to get their hands in by teaching at least one class every two weeks. They rarely get such a chance as Cleveland's flu gave them. Said Lincoln's principal: "Best relief pitchers ever sent to the mound...
Like most U.S. towns its size (pop. 4,825), Napoleon, Ohio had no bookstore. Townspeople had to buy their books at Schaaf's Pharmacy. This year they bought some 2,500 volumes (mostly 49? and $1 reprints of popular sellers), published by Cleveland's World Publishing Co. The sales were big enough to convince World that it would be worthwhile to sell cheap books where they had not been sold before. Last week International Circulation Co. (a Hearst subsidiary) began to sell World's 49? Tower books on 20,000 newsstands in railroad stations, supermarkets, cigar stores...
...rust, blood, tears, sweat, bile, rheum and elephant dung." Pittsburgh was "the crucible where all values are reduced to slag." Detroit "can do in a week for the white man what the South couldn't do in 100 years to the Negro." "The most typical American city" was Cleveland. "Possessing all the . . . prerequisites for life, it remains . . . dead...