Word: leos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...literary magazine, designed for the "Cambridge reading community," will be published starting in late November, co-editors Quincy Howe, Jr. '56 and Leo Raditsa '56 announced yesterday...
Right up to game time at the Polo Grounds last week, odds that the Cleveland Indians would take the World Series were 9 to 5. After a long, loud summer, second-guessing Managers Leo Durocher and Al Lopez, the nation's sportswriters, smart-money boys and Sunday-afternoon bleacher jockeys all had an easy explanation: Cleveland's pitching was too good. Even with their patchwork infield, the Indians had won 111 games. How could they lose a short series...
...pitchers don't exactly toss bean-bags," retorted Lippy Leo. But no one was listening. And for the first eight innings of the series, the Giants had a hard time hanging on. Then wonderful Willie Mays raced almost back to the Harlem River to pull down a long fly with his back to home plate and save the ball game. In the tenth, the score tied 2-2 and two men on, Durocher called on "Dusty" Rhodes, his first-rate, second-string outfielder, who had been a sensational pinch hitter all season. Dusty Rhodes popped the first pitch into...
...four-game series. Now, anyone who doubted that the Giants would be the eighth was careful not to talk out loud. Even a pinch-hit homer by the Indians' veteran castoff, Hank Majeski, did not break the spell. Winning the fourth game, 7-4, was so simple that Leo Durocher did not even bother to call on Dusty Rhodes...
Stanford University's Dr. Leo H. Garland reported that unselected screening has turned up only an average of ten cases of lung cancer for every 100,000 persons examined, and he calculated that X rays taken every six months of men over 45 would show 50 cases per 100,000. There are 22 million men in that age group in the U.S., and each year they would need at least 44 million minifilms (35-mm.), plus 1,000,000 larger films for checking suspected cases...