Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mild Manager. After that, Dusty struck out twice, a failure that almost proved him human. But by then the Giants were safely in front. Durocher's men didn't seem capable of making a single serious error. Over on the Cleveland bench, Alfonso Ramon Lopez watched his boys make a shambles of their reputation. "Everything we've done is wrong," marveled the mild-mannered manager. "Everything they've done is right." Probably not even a good ball team could have beaten the Giants; the lackluster Indians never had a chance. After the third game Sportswriter...
...bequest was received from the estate of John Farwell Moors, who died in 1953 at the age of 93. Moors is Radcliffe's largest single donor. His previous gifts include $700,707 towards Moors Hall, $5,000 towards Holmes Hall, and $5,000 for unrestricted endowment. A typographical error in yesterday's paper stated that Moors had given five million dollars for unrestricted endowment...
Died. Kokichi Mikimoto, 95, onetime noodle merchant who became the world's largest producer of cultured pearls; of a kidney ailment; in Nagoya, Japan. Perfecting by trial and error a method of seeding oysters known since the 13th century (a fleck of sand or a tiny bead is forced into the oyster, which seeks to counteract the irritant by coating it with layer upon layer of pearl-making nacre), spry, fun-loving Mikimoto (who entertained his employees with feats of magic and parasol-twirling) scandalized Paris in 1913, when he first brought his quarter-price pearls to the international...
...several thousand inmates were political prisoners, marveled at how hard they worked. "We do not even scold them," said the prison director. Correspondents discovered why: nearly all were under sentence of death, were allowed two years' grace to see whether a prisoner "truly and sincerely would see the error of his ways...
...flat one year and curved another year, and in each case offers the reason that the woman looks best that way, the stylist has to be wrong one of the times. If he is now wrong, why obey him ? If he was wrong before, then he is subject to error, and may be wrong still; why obey him? . . . If I had a wife, I'd beat her for this sheeplike following of irresponsible leaders...