Word: herbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Married. Herb Elliott, 21, Australia's record-holding (3:54.5) miler; and Anne Dudley; in Nedlands, Western Australia...
...Thieriot and Newhall still lacked just the man to turn the liberal Republican Chronicle into a breakfast treat instead of a treatment: curly-haired, puckish San Franciscophile Herb Caen (pronounced Cane), 43, the columnist who defected to Hearst's morning Examiner in 1950 for a doubled salary of $30,000. In 1957, Prodigal Son Caen decided to return (for $38,000 a year), leaving the Examiner (circ. 257,251) with little humor to perk up its somber pages. "The day I knew we had come around the corner," says Publisher Thieriot, "is the day Herb Caen decided to come...
Cleveland needed three pitchers in the ninth inning to defeat the Athletics, 6 to 4, in an American League opener in Kansas City. Gary Bell, entering the ninth with a four-run lead, gained one out and gave up three singles and a run before being relieved by Herb Score...
...season, Ike Delock. Frank Bauman, long a disappointment to Boston fans, has shown considerable improvement this Spring, and he might well develop into the Sox' first left-hander since Mel Parnell's departure. Couple these four with such promising players is Bill Monbouquette, Ted Bowsfield, Dave Sisler, and Herb Moford and you have a staff which should...
Below this, the American League starts to get pretty rocky. 1959 could be the big year for Cleveland to make its dying fall into the second division. There is a strong possibility that the Indians' pitching staff, long the envy of the majors, will fold completely. Herb Score has never been the same since Gil McDougald bounced a line drive off his eyeball, and paunchy Mike Garcia is about through. Other mound hopefuls Gary Bell, Mudcat Grant and Cal McLish will not inspire much fear in the opposition...