Word: famed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance double-play combination was declared officially famous. Shortstop Joseph Tinker (ailing off & on in Florida), 2nd Baseman John J. Evers (bedridden with paralysis in Albany), and ist Baseman Frank Chance (dead 22 years) were finally admitted to baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. Declared white-haired Valetudinarian Evers gratefully: "That leaves me with no more worries...
Kapitza had come late to the problems of atomic energy. Though he earned his fame in the laboratory of Britain's great Lord Rutherford, the man who first smashed the atom, he worked there on magnetism, which was only indirectly connected with nuclear energy. Since magnetism was best studied at extremely low temperatures, Kapitza became an authority on the liquefaction of gases at close to absolute zero...
...Shanks, an Englishman of infinite patience and notable staying power, made his first bid for fame: he published the value of TT* carried from its normal 3.1416 to 530 decimal places. Several years later he pushed the frontier to 607, and in 1873 retired undefeated at 707. His record, and his figures, were accepted with unquestioning...
Outstanding treat of the show is Susan Reed, the folk song singer of Cafe Society fame. Twanging on her lyre, she narrates the unportrayed episodes of the drama at intervals between the swiftly moving seenes. Her charms, however, prove incapable of restraining a restless audience, hastening to leave, before she concludes the show. This is bad management on the part of the producers, who should know that the average audience has got to have a shock or a thrill right up to the last second...
...positions pretty well sewed up at the moment. Bill Fitz, a veteran of the '42 summer team, and the first man to play. Varsity ball under the wartime Freshman eligibility, looms are one of the best first base prospects in many years, while Don Swegan, of football and basketball fame, is holding forth at shortstop...