Word: lombardis
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...gate receipts ($38,000), most of which goes to indigent ballplayers, Cincinnati's townsfolk were heaping praise on the grizzled head of William Boyd McKechnie, mild-mannered manager of the amazing Reds. Not only was Starting Pitcher Vander Meer credited with the victory, but Catcher Ernie Lombardi, rookie First Baseman Frank McCormick and Outfielder Ival Goodman turned in creditable performances...
...shot in April to a pennant possibility at midseason. On the Fourth of July, traditional halfway mark in the pennant race, the Reds last week were in fourth place, but were leading the National League in club batting average, had the leading pitcher (Vander Meer), leading batter (Lombardi), leading homerun hitter (Goodman, whose 20 homeruns so far are more than any player in Cincinnati's history ever made in a whole season...
...before the spring examinations, got a job soloing in Manhattan's Brick Presbyterian Church, later earned $700 a week singing Lieut. Niki in Oscar Straus's A Waltz Dream. Money saved therefrom took him to Italy where he studied under Caruso's old teacher Vincenzo Lombardi. Cynical old Lombardi said he would make better progress with an Italian name. Translated into Eduardo di Giovanni, he cut a wide singing swath through Europe, kept the name until he returned to the U. S. in 1919 to sing with the Chicago Opera...
Thomas Harrison Hunter '35, and Cesar Lombardi Barber '35 have been awarded a *500 Henry Fellowship to study at Cambridge University, England, and George Lee Haskins '35 will receive a similar award for study at Oxford. The Henry Fund was founded by the will of the late Lady Julia Henry...
...list of men elected follows: Cesar Lombardi Barber, of Bethseda, Maryland; Robert Olmstead Carleton, of Brooklyn, New York; Charles Edwin Carr, of Malden; Charles Richards Cherington, of New York; Aaron Arthur Cohen, of Long Brach, New Jersey; Harold Simson Cone, of Greensboro, North Carolina; William Frederick Ebling, of Osterville; Maurice Franks, of Lawrence; Charles Friedman Haas, of Chicago; Robert Peace Heller, of Brooklyn, New York; John Joseph Hession, of Dorchester; Thomas Harrison Hunter, of Cambridge; Reed Edwin Peggram, of Dorchester; Leo Rosenfield, of Chelsea; Richard Samuel Salant, of New York; and Robert Daniel Sard, of New York...