Word: louise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The rawboned kid was 17 and fresh off a Van Meter, Iowa farm when he gangled out to begin his major-league pitching career against the St. Louis Cardinals' Gas House Gang. First man up in the exhibition game in Cleveland was a scrappy shortstop named Leo Durocher. Robert...
In three innings, that July night in 1936, righthanded Bob Feller faced nine Cardinals and struck out eight. He had as much control, one sportswriter reported, as a drunken swallow-one wild pitch shattered a grandstand chair. But the Cleveland Indians knew they had a natural. In August of that...
Some serious scouting outside the neighborhood, however, will almost certainly take place at the Football Coaches Convention in St. Louis next week. Hal Lahar, who has coached Colgate to success the past five years, may be approached in St. Louis.
Except for a few facts about his professional background, few of his colleagues ever got to know very much about the solemn, sullen associate professor in engineering that St. Louis University hired in the summer of '54. Born in the Ukraine, Orest Stephen Makar, 47, had taught in Warsaw...
George gets them. His trials begin with the sudden death of his talented older brother Jeff, who had designed and built the Tower in the West, one of the first skyscrapers in St. Louis. Six months after the fatal accident, George learns that his brother's widow is pregnant...