Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exacting trade (Jansen's Park Avenue apartment boasts a collection of intricately inlaid tables fitted by his father's hands), endured hard times and planned better lives for his children. Jansen, a big, strong boy. knew what he wanted to do soon after he entered Grammar School No. 60 in The Bronx. He liked school. He decided to stay there...
Careful palates may protest sometimes at Will's beer, for all the pippins bobbing in it, but Will himself, who in grammar school literally had to be tied to his bench, can understandably be pleased with his intellectual achievement...
...newest stringer to join the masthead roster of full-time correspondents is Frank McCulloch of Reno. McCulloch is a Westerner who knows his West. He was born on a hay and cattle ranch, near Fernley, Nev., 33 years ago. Extracurricular grammar-school activity, he says, "consisted of fighting daily with a Mexican boy named Jesse Arenaz, and, in eight years of furious effort, never winning a scrap...
...time his second son, Christian Archibald, was born in 1895, Albert Herter was a successful muralist, and young Chris came into a world of culture and comfort, if not luxury. German, learned from his governess, was his first language, and by the time he was ready for grammar school he was talking French and English as well...
...Cooperstown, N.Y., Dizzy Dean, flamboyant fogball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals in the '305, joined Al Simmons, longtime (1924-44) batting great (lifetime average: .334) for ceremonies enshrining them in baseball's Hall of Fame. Dean, "an old Arkansas cotton picker" who turned into a grammar-mangling sports announcer after racking up 150 major league victories, 83 defeats, called it the "greatest honor" of his life. "I want to thank the good Lord," he drawled, "for giving me a good right arm, a strong back and a weak mind...