Word: hards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Restelli served two years with the Army Engineers. Another high-flying rookie, the St. Louis Cardinals' hard-hitting third baseman, Eddie Kazak, was a paratrooper and combat infantryman; he was bayoneted by a Nazi soldier in hand-to-hand fighting near Brest, France ("I think I shot the Nazi, but maybe I missed," he says), and later had part of his right elbow blown off by a shell fragment. After discharge, with a plastic patch in his elbow, he changed his name from Tkaczuk to Kazak and began slugging his way up the minor-league ladder (Columbus, Ga.; Omaha...
...University of California's Waldemar Christian Westergaard, 67, authority on Scandinavian history (Denmark and Slesvig, 1848-1864; The First Triple Alliance). Plump, pleasant Professor Westergaard long ago gave up classroom seminars ("hard seats don't mean hard heads"), preferred to teach in his own library, smoking a four-foot-long Danish pipe...
...Last year George (Tubby the Tuba) Kleinsinger had the Metropolitan Opera's Robert Merrill warbling his Brooklyn Baseball Cantata. Last week, all such pretenses of musical dignity were gone, but with two new tunes in their bat box, the National League's colorful Dodgers were slugging hard in the jump, jive and jukebox league...
...Pulitzer Prizes: for its 1939 campaign which led to elimination of the St. Louis smoke nuisance, and its 1947 exposure of the political scandal behind the Centralia (Ill.) mine disaster. News staff reporters, whose stories furnished the material for the P-D's hard-hitting editorials, were aware nevertheless that the great prestige of the P-D's editorial page declined under Coghlan, chiefly because of unpredictable shifts in editorial position. Example: for months in 1940, the P-D damned F.D.R. as a dictator, then abruptly came out for his reelection. Last fall, when Joseph Pulitzer...
...expert on the U.S. Supreme Court, a pen-pal of several justices, a contributor to the Dictionary of American Biography. The P-D distributed 70,000 reprints of his "news dispatches" (datelined Philadelphia, 1787) on the adoption of the U.S. Constitution. Mild-mannered Irving Dilliard can also write hard-hitting editorials. He wrote the celebrated "contempt of court" editorial, pounded out many of the Centralia editorials, was mainly responsible for the P-D campaign to smash the corrupt Illinois machine of Governor Dwight Green. Under Dilliard, the page might not be as lively as under Coghlan; staffers hoped it would...