Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twelve years The MacPhail had built himself one of the gaudiest baseball reputations in all the game's 103 years. He broke in to baseball in 1930 as owner of the minor-league Columbus Redbirds. Three years later he hit his stride as general manager of the Cincinnati Reds. He painted the park orange; introduced usherettes and night baseball; groomed a slick radio announcer, Red Barber (TIME, Sept. 28), to sell the club to radio listeners; founded a farm system that brought Cincinnati two pennants and a world championship...
...never better than when talking hardheaded characters out of important sums-actually sweet-talked the Brooklyn Trust Co. into putting up $300,000 more and giving him full authority to spend it. He brought Red Barber on from Cincinnati; he put on all the stunts he had learned in Columbus and Cincinnati and added a superb new one which became the greatest drawing card in baseball history: he got every team in the league gunning for the Dodgers. Every game was a grudge fight...
Plain Sister Ruth (Rosalind Russell) and lovely Sister Eileen (Janet Blair) leave Columbus, Ohio for a basement apartment in Greenwich Village and literary and stage careers respectively. Work on an incipient subway rocks the floor every few minutes. A dog mistakes the bars of their window for a comfort station. A seasonally unemployed professional footballer sleeps in their kitchenette to avoid his mother-in-law. Sister Ruth interests a magazine editor (Brian Aherne) in her copy and person. Sister Eileen innocently entices into their manic ménage their landlord (George Tobias), a Harpo-Marxian painter with delusions of genius...
Decision. In Columbus, Ga., Ernest Pershing Rasberry could stand it no more, asked a court to change his last name to plain Berry...
John H. Dodge, East Lansing, Mich., George Dunton, Jr., Santa Ana, Calif., Robert E. Elsas, Columbus, Ohio, Leonard A. Erickson, Grand Forks, N. Dak., Leonard C. Farr, Marshfield, Ore., Douglas LaV. Fortney, Bowden, N. Dak., Gordon L. Furth, Berkeley, Calif., Robert F. Germer, Olney, III., William W. Haynes, Berkeley, Calif...