Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England, Van Dyck had everything, but like King Charles, he couldn't keep it. The elegant night life wore him down; the importunities of such lovely mistresses as Margaret Lemon (who once tried to stab his painting hand) exhausted him. At 40, Van Dyck left England to Cromwell's Roundheads, returned to Antwerp. He had hopes of becoming Rubens' successor in the field of mythological and religious painting, but within three years he died. Had he lived longer, the crackerjack art student, playboy and plaything of society might have known disappointment ; big things were...
...mirror and an awesome machine. Technicians arranged the cancer victim on the table while Dr. Roger A. Harvey peered through the strange machine's ring sights (like those on an aircraft machine gun) at the patient's neck. When the apparatus was aimed just right, the technicians left the room...
...Newcombe, silenced Cardinal bats (6-0) with the help of outfielders who chased fly balls like men on bicycles and made "impossible" catches. One smash from Musial's bat would have been a triple if Outfielder Luis Olmo had not bounded high into the air against the left-center-field wall and made the catch-of-the-month...
...Little Left-Hander. It is now a matter of deep mortification in Pittsburgh that Stan Musial originally dreamed of being a Pirate. Unfortunately for Pittsburgh, the Pirates never dreamed of Stan Musial until it was too late. Stan was born in Donora, Pa. (about 25 miles southeast of Pittsburgh), where his father, Lukasz Musial, a Polish immigrant, worked at the zinc mill to support a wife and six kids...
...Musial residence was,a lackluster frame house two doors from the home of Joe Barbao, a semi-pro pitcher who worked nights in the zinc mill. Joe played catch with the kid he called "the little left-hander," taught him how to hold a ball to throw a curve. It was Stan Musial's ambition to be another Lefty Grove...