Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprised-not because she was a girl, but because she was only eight. He gave her a doll. The first time she was tagged as a "woman violinist," she says, was in the U.S. Now, at 40, Erica says, "I hate that label. It's obvious I'm a woman, but what does that have to do with it?" She is well aware that few women have made their mark in the arts, and that they are mostly singers (Schumann-Heink), dancers (Pavlova) or novelists (Jane Austen, the Brontës, George Eliot). There have been women composers...
...fire. He has a system: "Any time I'm in a hole, I got confidence in that fast ball." He doesn't trust curves, he says, because lots of times curves just hang, and when they hang you're sunk. With help from his Boston Braves, he won, 7 to 6. In the second game of the doubleheader, the Braves were in trouble again. Big Bill went to the rescue, and was credited with...
...week was: "What's the matter with Bob Feller?" The great man, whose pitching arm commands baseball's highest pay ($87,000), had lost five straight. The guesses ranged from a "temporary slump" to "natural deterioration" after a dozen years. Said Feller himself: "I'm not going to answer questions like that. I'm not going to throw gasoline on a fire that's going like hell anyway." He canceled all outside activities, including autograph parties at stores selling his book, How to Pitch. This week against the Philadelphia A's, Feller finally broke...
Oklahoma, trying to cling to Jim Crow and still satisfy the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Sipuel case (TIME, Jan. 26), had set up a "separate but equal" law school for Negroes in Oklahoma City. Only one student-Theophilus M. Roberts, a waiter at the Oklahoma Club-enrolled. Negro leaders in the segregation fight boycotted the school (so did Ada Sipuel) and turned the heat on Roberts. Last week, he quit without ever having cracked a book. Said he: "I've bucked the Church, the fraternal organizations and the man in the street. The pressure...
...have the makings of a proxy fight. But even if one developed, there was no assurance that imperious Sewell Avery would be toppled. Aside from his record at turning profits, there was his rock-hard stubbornness. "I'll be here," Avery once told an associate, "until I'm six feet under...