Word: greenbergs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in his 1,049th game with the Detroit Tigers, 30-year-old Hank Greenberg smashed out two home runs, drove in a third run to lick the New York Yankees 7-to-4, then turned in his uniform. Next morning, in an old corset factory in downtown Detroit, Henry Greenberg, baseball's highest-paid player ($55,000 a year), was inducted into the U.S. Army along with 300 other Detroit draftees...
...since ailing Lou Gehrig bowed out of the New York Yankees two years ago had baseball lost such an outstanding player. In eight years with the Tigers, Greenberg was twice (1935 and 1940) voted the American League's Most Valuable Player, led the league in runs-batted-in four times, and once, in 1938, came within two runs of tying Babe Ruth's alltime home-run record...
...were in front of the Indians and Yankees. The Little Brownies, with as good a percentage (.500) as the Yankees, were in front of the Tigers. Many a fan was ready to wager that the Browns will finish ahead of the Tigers this year. Reason: hard-hitting Hank Greenberg, the Tigers' most valuable player, was placed in Class I A by a Detroit draft board last week, will be called for military service within a fortnight...
Richard B. Woodbury 1G, Washington, D. C.; Carl G. Anthon 3G, Cambridge; Walter F. Stettner 2G, Cambridge; Albert Wollenberger 1G, Springfield; Theodore Singer 3G, Dorchester; Herman C. Wallich 2G, New York City; Joseph Greenberg 1G, Mattapan; Dwight Edward W. Barankin, senior at Princeton, Philadelphia; and Paul A. Wright, senior at Bates, Nashua...
...Edward Greenberg's surrealist montage, entitled "MozART is a five pointed STAR (arzica)" is perhaps the most strikingly radical work shown, but it is quite balanced by James Bishop's meticulous, if not too characterful, pencil portraits. The range between is thoroughly covered, and one can pick out Kenneth Henry's impressionistic "Study of a Model", Barbara O'Neill's powerful use of facial planes, taken from Cezanne, and J. W. Lample's "Still Life" very much a la Matisse...