Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Pepper Martin, 61, charter member of the St. Louis Cardinals' famed Gashouse Gang in the 1930s, an outfielder and third baseman known to his fans as "the Wild Horse of the Osage" for his lunging batting style and stampeding base-running, whose finest hour came in the 1931 World Series against the Philadelphia Athletics which he won almost singlehanded, stealing five bases and batting 12 for 24; of a stroke; in McAlester, Okla...
...James J. Reeb, a Boston minister who was attacked by a white gang Tuesday in Selma, Alabama died last night of multiple skull fractures...
...Harvard senior and his wife were attacked by a gang of teen-agers about 9:15 p.m. last night on Garden St. beside the First Church cemetery. Neither was seriously injured...
...gang then attacked the Blackmers, knocked them to the sidewalk, and kicked them. Blackmer said he thought the beating lasted about a minute. He said the youths apparently moved off when they discovered that his wife, who was wearing pants, was not another male...
...Cambridge thought that no sexual relationship should be absolutely condemned by the church, which at the least ought to be less scandalized about teen-age promiscuity in urban slums. The new morality, he said, would certainly approve of an Episcopal priest in New York who provides contraceptives for a gang of delinquents he attempts to serve...