Word: fives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twelve, Virginian Dick Bales knew he wanted to be a conductor. After high school he went to Rochester's Eastman School of Music. In 1940, after he had toured with a WPA orchestra and studied on a Juilliard fellowship, Serge Koussevitzky picked him as one of five outstanding young U.S. conductors, packed him off to the new Berkshire Music Center for private instruction...
...Louis Cardinals), they were less conspicuous than the greenest rookies. Nobody had to give them orders about getting in shape; they trained themselves. Many a player turns up at camp hog-fat; Musial, who had put himself on a winter schedule of two meals a day, reported five pounds underweight and built up to his normal 175. When the season began, Stan Musial dug in at the plate with his peculiar crouch. "He looks like a kid peeking around the corner to see if the cops are coming," explained one coach...
Said the News: "There are 16 detectives accepting graft in the Miami police department. This is one-quarter of the entire detective bureau . . ." The News did not name the 16, but it did not leave much room for doubt either: "Five of the graft-takers are in District Two. There are six [detectives] in this district...
...Book-of-the-Month Club set Cheaper off by picking it as a dual selection (with Fred Gipson's Hound-Dog Man) and distributing 250,000 copies. In five months Publisher Crowell has sold an additional 150,000 copies and reports that customers are still carrying it out of bookstores at the rate of 5,000 copies a week. Twentieth Century-Fox paid out $100,000 for the screen rights...
...fine support to save him, Godin and Hymans each gave up four runs, including home runs by Jack Wallace and Bill Barron of the 1947 team. Varsity outfielder Herb Neal retaliated with a three-run homer off Wallace in the sixth, when Stuffy McInnis' men got four of their five tallies...