Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Luke Appling, 55: election to baseball's Hall of Fame. Famed, in approximately equal measure, for his 1) batting (.310 lifetime average), 2) versatility (he played first, second, shortstop and third), and 3) hypochondria (his teammates called him "Old Aches and Pains"), Appling loyally toiled for the Chicago White Sox for 20 years without ever playing on a pennant-winning team. "This makes up for it," he said...
...appeared in 1946. Since then, it has sold more than 15 million copies in this country, and has been translated into 26 languages. Although Dr. Spock has authored or co-authored four books since, it is this book which has made his world-wide reputation. Someone asked if his fame had drawbacks...
Ludwig von Keats. Singing groups are countless in Liverpool, and the Beatles did not just come in off a street corner to fame, as happens so frequently in the U.S. They developed their coordinated skill in a long line of one-night stands. They actually went off to the beer cellars of Hamburg to become fully professional. When they recorded Love Me Do in 1962, they began their giddy spiral to fame...
Wednesday, February 5 HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.).-Jason Robards Jr. stars in an adaptation of Robert E. Sherwood's Abe Lincoln in Illinois. Color...
...manufacture everything from turbogenerators to X-ray apparatus. Also sprouting are plants for electronics parts, TV sets, plate glass and clothing, as well as factories that turn out a cheap furniture; in honor of its city of origin, Germans have dubbed the furniture "Gelsenkirchner Baroque." Though the Ruhr gained fame for its contributions to the arsenals of war in times past, today it has no armaments industry to speak...