Word: grimme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...baseball's gaggiest managers could find little to gag about last week. On the very day he placed as the third most playful pilot on a baseball writers' poll, Charlie Grimm watched his Chicago Cubs take their 13th consecutive licking. It tied the worst early-season losing streak in the majors, set by the Washington Senators...
...Jolly Cholly" Grimm had, in effect, asked for it. He had been invited to manage the Cubs by their owner P. K. Wrigley after they had already lost ten games and Manager Jimmy Wilson had been ousted. As soon as he could find someone to take over his successful Milwaukee Brewers,* Grimm jumped at the chance. Even last week's continuing losses could not quench the optimism of his many admirers. He has an unmatched reputation in Chicago and, on paper, the Cubs seem to have everything they need to top the weak wartime heap...
Burly, banana-fingered Charles John Grimm first started cutting capers for Chicago fans in 1925. In seven years as the Cubs' first baseman, he endeared himself to the crowd by mixing mimicry and banjo playing with expert ball. In six years managing, he was even more impressive: two pennants, two seconds, two thirds. He was fired in 1938 as the Cubs slipped, but the Cubs kept slipping to their present all-time low. One of Grimm's chief hopes is the Cubs' $60,000 clouting outfielder Lou Novikoff, who missed spring training. Novikoff did not get along...
...girl's mother confirmed it. The bride-to-be, if bride she becomes, is slim, dark-haired, 17-year-old June Morris, who works in a factory canteen. "It doesn't matter to me who he is," she said in a declaration half out of Grimm, half out of Noel Coward. "I can't help his being the son of an earl. I fell in love with Gerald before I knew who he was when...
...went into the business and made his first picture (The Squaw Man) in 1913. A frustrated actor, son of successful and knowing show folk, he had already had his artistic wings clipped-by David Belasco, who purchased and took credit for a play (The Return of Peter Grimm) which De Mille wrote...