Word: greenbergs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sergeant Henry ("Hank") Greenberg, baseball topnotcher ($55,000 a year), just discharged from the Army as an overage draftee, dropped his baseball plans to re-enter the service...
Sergeant Henry ("Hank") Greenberg, pushing 31, got his Army discharge as an overage draftee, hoped to rejoin the Tigers in the outfield...
...microphones by sports winners. His reason: they hurt the dignity of sport. . .Lumbering onetime Fisticuffer Primo Carnera, who tried cinemacting for a while, has taken up wrestling. . . A Pittsburgh judge gave Heavyweight Billy Conn a suspended sentence and a lecture for speeding and driving without a license. . .Corporal Hank Greenberg, ex-Tiger outfielder, was arrested for speeding at Fort Custer, prohibited from driving on the grounds for a month, put on K.P. . . . In Chicago, ex-Halfback Tom Harmon said he was about to propose to Elyse Knox, 23, a cinemactress he had met in Hollywood. Tom's girl used...
...Fascist Oswald Mosley, interned in London's Brixton Prison, began taking German lessons. / / Antanas Smefona, self-exiled President of Lithuania, discovered living with his wife in a log cabin near Benton Harbor, Mich., is still ecstatic over America's good roads and standard of living. / / Private Hank Greenberg shone in close order drill and calisthenics, won a promotion to corporal. / / Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich (Lady Macbeth of Mzensk) went to work in Leningrad as a fire fighter. / / The public library of Southport, England, threw out 90 books by P. G. Wodehouse, termed them "waste paper." / / Wandering Ex-King...
Like Lou Gehrig, Hank Greenberg learned his baseball on the sidewalks of New York, first attracted big-league scouts while fence-busting for a New York high-school team. Big and gawky (6 ft. 4 in.), he was turned down by the late, great John McGraw because he was "too awk ward." But, like Gehrig, Greenberg was industrious, persevering, went on to be come one of the best first basemen in the game. After seven years at first base, Greenberg ungrudgingly agreed to shift to the outfield last year "for the good of the team" - to make room...