Word: homers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sent incumbent Republicans back to the Senate: Connecticut's Prescott Bush beat Congressman Thomas J. Dodd; Maryland's John Marshall Butler, elected six years ago with Joe McCarthy's assistance, without it this time downed Democrat George P. Mahoney by 50,000 votes; Indiana's Homer E. Capehart easily won a third term over former Agriculture Secretary Claude R. Wickard; and Wisconsin's 72-year-old Alexander Wiley handily downed State Senator Henry W. Maier. In Nevada, after trailing part of the way through a nip-and-tuck battle with Cliff Young, Democratic Incumbent Alan...
Icing on the Cake. One correspondent, the New York Times's Pulitzer Prizewinning Homer Bigart, had a hand in each of the week's big stories. A veteran reporter of battle in Korea and Palestine when he worked for the Herald Tribune, Bigart had been rushed from New York to Vienna to work on the Hungarian revolution. He was filing from Hungary when the Times cabled him to get to Israel. Three days later, Bigart's byline appeared over a story from Tel Aviv. The Times's shift of Bigart was only icing on the cake...
Indiana: Solidly for Ike. Republican Senator Homer Capehart leads Democrat Claude Wickard...
...target, his fast ball hummed into life, but when he was wide of the strike zone, he was not wide enough. Even the pitches he wanted to waste hung close to the plate. Squat Yogi Berra, the best fastball hitter in the majors, whacked one of them for a homer in the first inning, another into the stands in the third. After that, the tense series degenerated into a shambles. In the fourth inning, Yankee Outfielder Elston Howard tagged Newk for another homer, and the home-town stands belched an ugly chorus of boos as the big man sadly slouched...
...Boston). Then he parked a 3-and-1 pitch in the right-field stands to break up the ballgame. The final score was Yanks 5, Dodgers 3, but the game belonged to Slaughter. "I'd be fibbing," he said, "if I didn't own up that the homer meant something a little extra special for me. You know, I'm getting toward the second half of my career, and you like to prove you can still...