Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gunner Charles Gorman, who was shot down in Rumania during the war, was in a civilian plane crash last week. Returning from the Cleveland Air Races with a former Army flyer and two young women, the light plane cracked up in the woods near Kenton, Ohio. Charles Gorman's three companions were killed; for about 40 hours he lay in the wreckage. Later, in a Kenton hospital, still woozy from the narcotics which eased the pain of his shattered left arm, he tried to tell what it had been like...
Another champion was acting the part last week, after a slow start. Rapid Robert Feller won No. 17 for the season, as many as any American League pitcher. Cleveland Indian Owner Bill Veeck (rhymes with neck) celebrated the occasion by giving Feller a $40,000 bonus. Added to his regular salary, this will bring 28-year-old Bobby Feller's 1947 pitching earnings well over $80,000-the highest Babe Ruth ever made in one year...
...members of the American Legion poured in for their biggest national convention since Pearl Harbor, the Big City cleared for action. It moved everything movable out of hotel lobbies, boarded up plate-glass windows, ordered its cops to be especially paternal, and then, as resignedly as Cleveland, Miami or Omaha, waited for the first big bang...
...club's pennant drive, hitting .300 or a few points over or under and leading the league in stolen bases (25). Of the other four Negroes in the majors, the St. Louis Browns' Henry Thompson and Willard Brown had been released after a month's trial; Cleveland's Larry Doby was still hanging on, as a pretty impotent pinch hitter...
...only time he ever made a public appearance was last year, when, at the urging of a friend, he gave the Cleveland Heights High School $100,000 for a stadium. The friend wrote him a speech for the presentation, but when it came time to deliver it Hosford merely mumbled: "I've decided to give you a hundred thousand," and sat down...