Word: gloving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Porter has got by with such rhymes plenty of times: even his wizardry is hard put to improve on four basic rhymes with "love" in the English language (above, dove, glove, shove). But while he can be shamelessly obvious, more often Porter is so dazzlingly dexterous that all the Tin Pan Alleycats bristle with awe. Nobody is cozier with words: for him, Winchell rhymes with provincial, suburban with Deanna Durbin, Nina with schizophrenia. Jehovah with Casanova, Lassie with democrassy, to the bottom I with hippopotami, a fine finnan haddie with my heart belongs to daddy, and Venetia who loved...
Cureall. In Richland, Wash., Dr. R. R. Denicola reported that in an operation to cure a patient's severe coughing, he removed a surgeon's glove that had been lodged in one lung for twelve years...
Even then, Willie had a style of his own. The long hours of rolling a rubber ball with his father had taught him the spectacular "breadbasket" catch that still thrills fans in the Polo Grounds. With his hands held low, the big glove deceptively casual somewhere around his belt, he grabbed fly balls and got them away fast-flinging them in with a whipping sidearm motion...
Died. Austin Rosario ("Iron Glove") Maceo, 66, illiterate, Sicilian-born gambling czar of Galveston, Texas (pop. 66,568), which he helped make one of the widest-open towns in the U.S.; after a long illness; in Galveston. With his late brother Sam ("Velvet Glove"), Maceo became a Prohibition rumrunner, afterwards branched out with plush gambling clubs, raked in as much as $4,000,000 a year. In 1951, state legislators investigated his illegal empire, but could never get tolerant Galveston police to put Iron Glove in jail...
Ever since he showed up on campus in 1951, the quiet young man with the white glove has been watched and admired by the students and professors at little (enrollment: 750) Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio. The glove bears all the letters of the alphabet, and the young man wears it when among strangers so that they may talk to him by pressing the letters. Richard Kinney, 30, is totally blind and deaf, but through his fine mind and the wondrous sensitivity of his right hand he has managed to become a campus legend...