Word: grimme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sense & Nonsense. It would take more than a handful of G.I.s to change the National League race. On their farewell swing through the East last week, Charlie Grimm's rampaging Chicago Cubs added to their impressive lead. They were now comfortably ahead of the only team that could make trouble for them-the second-place St. Louis Cardinals...
What made Grimm's Cubs run was not a roster-load of stars, but a compact team of workers, and a manager who knew how to get them to play together. Ham-fisted Manager Charlie ("The Banjo") Grimm looks like a man having fun. Standing in his third-base coaching box, he cups his big paws and joyously bellows out the count after each pitch. He wiggles and waddles back & forth, lets out an occasional piercing whistle, mimics rival pitchers...
Married. Mary Hillard MacLeish, 21, schoolteacher daughter of Poet Archibald MacLeish. Assistant Secretary of State and ex-Librarian of Congress; and Navy Ensign Karl Grimm, 22; in Alexandria...
...tale has been told and retold in a score of tongues. His name, his cunning, and the basis of some of his adventures are discernible in Aesop's fables and in the Hindu myths from which those fables came. In the 19th Century, philologist and fairytale-teller Jacob Grimm republished the story with all the gusty lustiness of earlier tellings; in a politer version Goethe made an epic poem of it. No less than 27 episodes of Le Roman de Renard were penned in medieval France. The last of these formed the basis of the Flemish-Dutch poem from...
...TIME slipped on its dates. The Grimm brothers, proteges of Von Arnim and Brentano, collaborated on later volumes of the Wunderhorn...