Word: lew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...native of Milwaukee, I feverishly awaited your Oct. 21 issue, anticipating a cover story on the Braves' Lew Burdette. But instead of Burdette (entombed in your Sport section), there was Britain's Prince Philip smugly staring into antiquity. Anyone on Wisconsin Avenue for cricket...
...Lew Burdette...
...Return. When the Braves flew home to Milwaukee immediately after the last game. Burdette was still sputtering with tension -his eyebrows flapped, his forehead furled and flattened, his shoulders seemed to shrug of their own accord, his cigarette ashes fell all over his bright yellow and black necktie. "Hey, Lew, how you feel?" a boy called...
...With my fingers," Lew answered. "They got you running for President," another admirer hollered. "I don't think I'd make a good one," said Lew...
While the team's motorcade crawled across the bedlam of a citywide celebration. Lew turned up the convertible's radio and listened to a newscaster's description of the excitement. A careless woman cut her foot on a broken beer bottle. A man smashed his camera on the sidewalk when a flashbulb failed to fire. Eight nuns standing back from the curbside crowd waved their shy congratulations. Before the night ended, half a million Wisconsinites had cheered the champions, and 35 elbow-benders were in the drunk tank...