Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Texans had to admit that the U.S. Senate race between pipe-smoking ex-Governor Coke Stevenson and fast-talking Congressman Lyndon Johnson was close-even for Texas. Ten days after the election it was still impossible to tell...
...east of San Francisco jumped to suggest, they had a surprise coming. Billy's first businesslike solution for management problems was to save part of last year's $220,000 loss by lopping off four of the Met's five managers. As for General Manager Edward Johnson, "the mess of red ink on your books ought to tell you that Eddie is badly miscast as bossman of a setup which features 600 Tallulah Bank-heads and a dozen John L. Lewises . . . [but] if he's used only as artistic director, he's well worth...
Satchel, who might have ranked with such major-league greats as Mathewson, Walsh and Johnson had he been born white, and given a big-league chance before he was 44, was too good a showman to disappoint a crowd like that. Sticking mainly to his fast ball against the last-place Chicago White Sox, Paige worked with the kind of control that is almost a lost art among modern pitchers. He walked only one, struck out five, let only two runners get past first, won his fifth victory...
...life's work: an exhaustive source book called The Families and Genera of Living Rodents. Last week his longtime dream was nearing realization as he put the finishing touches on the third and final volume. The completed work is intended to do for rodent zoology what Samuel Johnson's dictionary did for the English language...
...after one six-month safari his take for ivory was worth ?3,600. Once when hundreds of rogue elephants ran wild in Cape Province, killing people and destroying property, the administrator of the province asked Pretorius to take on the job of extermination. Naturalist Sir Harry Johnson and two famous hunters had already given their opinions: the terrain and the danger made it impossible. "For a satisfactory fee" Pretorius went into the bush and did the job, killing as many as five...