Word: dain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like the newspaper he edits, solid, affable Erwin Dain ("Spike") Canham of the Christian Science Monitor seldom raises his voice. When he does, he gets a hearing. Last week Editor Canham left his desk in Boston to speak to a meeting of newspaper admen in Chicago. At the end of his speech came a stinger...
...leading both leagues with a batting average of .351 ; Wasdell is hitting around .300. But the clinching stroke that has given the Phillies a winning combination was trading Outfielders Earl Naylor and Danny Litwhiler (Litwhiler was considered their best outfielder) for three Cardinal castoffs: Coaker Triplett, Buster Adams and Dain Clay (later swapped for Cincinnati Shortstop Charlie Brewster...
...runs the show is scholarly, affable, 37-year-old Erwin Dain ("Spike") Canham, one of the nation's ablest news men. A Christian Scientist and a Rhodes scholar, he worked for the Monitor over seas and in Washington before promotion to his present job three years...
LOVE IN THE SUN-Leo Walmsley- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). A girl named Dain, and "I," a young man, unmarried, without money, in love, take a shack and shift for themselves on the Cornish coast. The young man writes books, from which he gets too little money; the young woman works very hard and is very "gallant." The arduous simplicities of their living and their small adventures are described in great detail; they have a baby; they are very happy indeed. Warm readers will find the tale disarming; cool readers may wonder whether love so nearly cloudless is interesting enough...