Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yellow Market. Cleveland hotels were taking reservations for the World Series. Denverites could talk of nothing except the Denver Bears, who had won 23 of their last 29 games. Fresh-water fishermen were experimenting with a new casting rod, a 22-inch contrivance of spring steel called a "stubcaster." Beaches were jammed everywhere-even near New York, where health authorities made grave tests for dangerous germs from open sewers. Oklahoma Citians tried something new in outdoor entertainment -square dances held on the concrete apron outside the municipal auditorium...
Confusion Confounded. The new increase will be piled atop the boosts made last week because of the new f.o.b. system of selling steel. Some of last week's increases: about $5 a ton in Philadelphia, $4-plus in Cleveland, up to $8 in St. Louis. On top of these some companies piled extras, pleading the elimination of the basing-point system (TIME, July 19). 'Detroit's Great Lakes Steel Corp. made its new f.o.b. prices $4 a ton more than the old ones, to match those of distant competitors, plus freight to Detroit...
...characteristic of Satchel Paige, hero and narrator of this tale, that he does not remember when or where the episode took place. He is hazy about his age, his won-lost record, and the number of no-hitters he has pitched. Last week, when the Cleveland Indians signed him up, Paige became the first Negro pitcher in the American League...
...world's greatest pitcher." Satchel† Paige was born in Mobile, Ala., 39, 43 or more probably 45 years ago, son of a landscape gardener and a mother who hated baseball. He was one of a family of nine-or sixteen. This mathematical inexactitude did not trouble Cleveland's President Bill Veeck last week. For all Veeck cared, Satchel might be "two or three decades" older than the next man-as long as he could pitch. Bob Feller had told Veeck that Paige was the relief man the league-leading Indians so desperately needed...
...figured that it would cost her $125 to go to the National Education Association convention in Cleveland. Corma Mowrey scrimped and budgeted all year to save the money. Like the 3,500 other teachers (three quarters of them women) at the convention last week, she considered it "the high point of my year." Miss Mowrey, tall, robust and 40, teaches English and practical arithmetic in a Clarksburg, W.Va. high school...