Word: dodger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brooklyn, Rookie Righthander Allan ("Red") Worthington of the New York Giants, just up from Minneapolis, shut out the Dodgers, 6-0, for his second shutout in two major-league starts. Worthington, incidentally, stopped Dodger home-run hitters who had hit at least one a game for 24 consecutive games...
...sneezed -and his belt burst. He bought a new one, 40 waist. 'Used to be 48 chest, 38 waist,' he said. He bought a pistol: 'Good around camp for small game, friends and intruders.' . . . [Restaurateur] Toots Shor told of Hemingway and Hugh Casey, the late Dodger pitcher, trading blows while standing in an open doorway in Havana. A knockdown every punch. Papa won. He never even lost a tooth. 'Spitting teeth is for suckers,' he said ... He hailed a cab. 'Sutton Place South,' he told the driver, then spoke some words...
Edward A. French '54, who will go to trial as a draft dodger under the Selective Service Act, has just received word that the U.S. Attorney in his home state of Oregon has stated that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, which permits him to be tried in Massachusetts, is unconstitutional. He will surrender French's files only on a writ of mandamus from the Supreme Court...
...still held good, but a delicate question had been added: Exactly who was made for whom? The Series itself was a fan's dream, a succession of cliffhanging, hand-wringing games full of melodramatic feats of hitting, fielding and pitching. It produced two blown-in-the-bottle heroes: Dodger Centerfielder Duke Snider, who hit four home runs in the first six games, and Yankee First Baseman Johnny Mize, the oldest (39) player on the field, who delivered a pinch-hit homer, muscled into the regular lineup, and golfed two more into the stands on successive days. The record...
French, a junior, will go to trial as a draft dodger under the Selective Service Act. Forbes added that "As a group our action towards peace is more concerned with national and international relations in the social, political, and economic spheres...