Word: klem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stage. In between, he got his head caught in a grand piano, beat his face with a microphone, shot himself in the foot. Making their TV debut, his rogue's gallery of radio characters (DeadEye, the cowboy; San Fernando Red, the crooked politician; Cauliflower McPugg, the punchdrunk fighter; Klem Kaddiddlehopper, the Irish tenor who is neither Irish nor a singer) reached a new high in uninhibited clowning...
Died. William J. Klem, 77, "baseball's greatest umpire," a favorite of sentimental sportwriters and unsentimental players alike; after long illness; in Miami. Starting out in baseball as a bush-league first baseman in Rochester, N.Y., when the game was still a rowdy, brawling affair, he became a National League umpire (1905-41) and eventually the league's honorary umpire in chief, officiated in more World Series (18) than any other umpire. A man who always called them as he saw them and claimed he never saw them wrong, he once proclaimed his faith: "Baseball is the greatest...