Word: haven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...daughter," the elder John D. Rockefeller is supposed to have told a cab driver who complained that she gave bigger tips, "has a very rich father, I haven...
Yale did accept a plan, however, which the Rockfeller Foundation sponsored, to invite two outstanding young dental teachers to take their M.D. at New Haven. Dr. David Weisberger D.M.D. '30 of the Harvard Dental School staff was selected for the program and emerged from it "more informed, grateful, but much older." He had to take the full fouryear course for his M.D. although he had taken courses in the first and second-year subjects when he attended Harvard Dental. The difference was that at the Dental School, the courses had the same names but only half the material...
...Michigan pitchers. Puzzled, Fisher said, "Sure." He watched Roberts throw a few. Fisher saw right away that the familiar three-quarters motion had been replaced by a sidearm delivery; Roberts was unconsciously favoring a sore arm. Fisher walked over. "Robby," he said, "you've changed your delivery, haven't you?" Roberts smiled with relief. "That's what I wanted to know," he said. "You know, in Philadelphia I'm Robin Roberts, and they won't tell me anything...
Mild-mannered Manager Mayo Smith agrees. "If we had another like Roberts," says Smith, "it would make a tremendous difference. I agree with Connie Mack that pitching is 70% of the game. If you have it, you're always in the game. Even if you haven't the power hitting, as we haven't, you can work things like the sacrifice, the stolen base...
Riesel's banter gave way to a fist-clenched plea for a congressional investigation of mobsters in organized labor, and he repledged himself to the crusade. "I have no sensitivity about being blind," he said. "They haven't scared me. I can't see, but that doesn't mean I can't write the same kind of copy." In writing it, he can already touch-type and, for note-taking, will learn Braille "or anything else that will help me." Riesel said that he would leave the hospital this week-still with a police bodyguard...