Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eddie Waitkus, Philadelphia first-baseman, left Chicago's Billings Hospital to go back to the Quaker City with noi trace of bitterness toward Bobby-Soxer Ruth Steinhagen, who, in an excess of girlish adoration, put a .22-caliber slug through his right lung last June 14. "I only saw her once after she shot me," said Eddie, "that was in a Chicago court where they sent her to the booby-hatch. It's just an unfortunate thing...
Williams, who was voted 1948-8 "Fighter of the Year" by New York boxing writers, answered all questions in the first minute of the first round. He launched a whistling left that staggered Bolanos and drew blood from his mouth. In the second round, a jolting overhand right almost closed the challenger's left eye. Thereafter, Bolanos stumbled around the ring, as helpless against Williams as a matador fighting a bull with a knife & fork...
...Riviera, where he was lounging about in soiled white shorts, with his barrel chest a magnificent brown, Picasso left off playing with his son long enough to deny that he was being domesticated. Grumbled Papa Picasso: "My painting hasn't changed, my subjects haven't changed. If I happen to paint a little girl it is because she happens to be at hand. If a piece of wood were at hand I would paint...
...several moments, Alexander Dunlop Lindsay of Oxford University stared at the departing figure of the young man with the coal scars on his face. The man, a Staffordshire miner named John Elkin, had left school at the age of ten; yet he had come a long way to hear Lindsay lecture on philosophy. "I heartily wish," sighed Lindsay, "that all my university students had a brain as good...
Copa Calling. In August 1947, Mindy left Whiteman to try a solo act in nightclubs. Her manager recalls: "What charm! She delivered a song as if it were a baseball." Mindy's delivery improved rapidly; in quick succession she sang at New Orleans' Hotel Roosevelt, Cleveland's Mounds Club, Miami's Clover Club...