Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After four years of fat competitive salaries, the players had less reason to exult. A few days before the merger, Notre Dame's great end, Leon Hart, observed that he would be willing to play professional football for $25,000 a season. At week's end, Arthur McBride, chief owner of the A.A.C.'s high-stepping Cleveland Browns put the new picture in focus: "Some . . . players who got $10,000 and $12,000 this year will be playing for half that-or less-next season...
Padre Pio had long dreamed of having a hospital nearby to help take care of the sick who come to see him. Last week, he suspended his special Advent devotions to watch his dream take form. In the presence of an official committee, which included EGA Deputy Chief M. Leon Dayton, a sunburned Italian bricklayer placed the last tile on the roof of the Fiorello LaGuardia Hospital, which is being built next door to the monastery. Named for New York City's late mayor, the new hospital is expected to be opened next spring with eventual accommodations...
...City Center's scant (40-ft.) stage always seemed full of excitement but never cluttered. Throughout, it was the most stunning ballet production Manhattan balletomanes had seen in many a moon. With the final curtain, the audience set up the kind of clamor that let Choreographer Balanchine, Conductor Leon Barzin and the whole cast know...
...selecting his title, Thomas Merton has pointed out the inadequacy of the poems in this latest collection. The quote on the frontispiece from Leon Bloy reads "When those who love God try to talk about him, their words are blind lions looking for springs in the desert." Merton's lines are fervent and usually very expressive but, for the most part, fall short in the description of the Divine; the title, "Tears of the Blind Lions," suggests that the poet is lamenting his own failure to express his love for God in verse...
Many doctors believe that the common cold is caused by a virus. Dr. Leon T. Atlas of the U.S. Public Health Service has been so sure of it that since 1947 he has been growing a sub-microscopic bug that seemed to be the guilty party. At Bethesda, Md. he nurtured his virus first in the noses of willing victims, then in hen's eggs. The strain, known as MRI, be came the world's No. 1 biological curiosity...