Word: jim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Samborski did not name a starting left fielder, but he implied that both Jim Kenary and Len Lunder, who have alternated in left, may be benched for weak hitting. Their place may be taken by one of two Jayvees, Hal Moffie or Steve Howe, who have batted .356 and .457 respectively...
...Union of South America, has been tending the ills of the people of the great Brazilian heartland state of Goiaz. Today, his gleaming, 130-bed hospital is one of the show places of the booming frontier capital of Anapolis, 875 miles northwest of Rio. But 58-year-old Dr. Jim can remember when he did appendectomies in his own kitchen...
Frontier Town. Brazil-born son of a British missionary, Dr. Jim settled in Anapolis, he says, "because it just couldn't go any place but forward." It was a junction point for mule trains then, had "only two simple streets and a dozen houses." Fanstone was the first to practice surgery in the region; until then, appendicitis was known as "knotted bowels" and you "either got well or died by yourself." He brought in the first X-ray machine, the first elevator; his six-story hospital was the first skyscraper...
...when husky, high-powered Bernardo Sayao Carvalho Araujo (TIME, April 7, 1947) was opening up the government's Colonia Agricola Nacional just west of Anapolis he made Dr. Fanstone the colony's chief medical officer. The growing colony meant a fresh load for the hospital, but Dr. Jim jammed in more beds, took care of all who came. Last week, as he watched workmen finish a new wing for his hospital, he knew that it would still not be big enough for the need...
...looked as if Washington playgoers would have to drop either Jim Crow or the theater...