Word: diamonditis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Broberg is also a highly rated diamond prospect, with the New York Yankees reported to be interested. They picked Red Rolfe right off the Hanover campus, and in time the amazingly well coordinated Broberg may be ready for his chance. It was he who parked one of the first pitches Tom Healey ever threw to him for a home run into some broken-down bleachers at Dartmouth last spring...
...Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton, at the Beaux-Arts Diamond Ball, socialites paraded: Mrs. Adolph Spreckels in a $500,000 necklace, Mrs. S. Winston Childs Jr. in diamond-meshed stockings. Cinderella for the night was 20-year-old Theodora Caruso, 5-&-10?-store clerk, escorted by Designer Ladislaus Czettel, who made her a costume...
Five Varsity regulars who led the Crimson to a first-place tie in final Eastern Intercollegiate League baseball standings last year walked the diploma trail in June, and Coach Floyd Stahl is now faced with a gigantic diamond rebuilding job in his second year at Harvard...
...When Neutrality removed its eight ships from European trade routes, Black Diamond Lines chartered them to U. S. traders, maintained its foreign service to Antwerp and Rotterdam by chartering 26 foreign ships, doubling its service...
...advance the cause of sportsmanship."* But even those heroes might be edged out by the winner for 1939, announced last week. It was 25-year-old Joe Burk, world's singles scull champion, unbeaten in 37 consecutive contests from 1937 through 1939, twice winner of the famed Diamond Sculls at Henley Regatta, and-as the Sullivan citation said-"a fine example of young American manhood...