Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only "20year man" now playing in the majors, Luke Appling came up to the White Sox in 1930, and has been with them ever since (except for 1944 and most of 1945 when he was in the Army). Last week in a series with the Senators at Washington, he played his 2,154th game as a major-league shortstop, breaking the record previously held by the National League's Walter ("Rabbit") Maranville...
...best figure for any big-time shortstop in modern baseball history. Appling makes more errors than a star infielder should, but he has led American League shortstops seven times in number of assists, and he is a wizard with bad-hopping grounders. He has made a crack double-play man out of the Sox's young second baseman, Cass Michaels, with whom Appling rooms on the road...
...same readers and that she was competing with herself, she merged them into the profitable La Salle News-Tribune (circ. 15,674). Peter kept an eye on the business side because, says Bazy, "I never come closer than three zeros on any figures." She ran the nine-man editorial staff and wrote a daily column of chitchat about her two children, her 14-room house, her favorite philanthropies and her blooded Arabian horses. Says Bazy: "You meet a lot of interesting people breeding Arabian horses." A fervent Republican, Bazy organized the 1948 "Twenties for Taft" clubs, kept the News-Tribune...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. noon, CBS). "The Mind of Primitive Man...
...attack at Pearl Harbor found Hachiro Yuasa again on a visit to the U.S.-a thin, spidery little man of 51 who had become one of Japan's top scholars and educators. But before anything else, Yuasa was still a Christian; he decided to stay on in America in protest against the war. From 1942 to 1946 he worked as consultant for a New York interdenomination committee to help U.S. Japanese. "I am 100% Japanese," Yuasa explained, "but I am a Christian Japanese ... I wish to be a symbol of the Church Universal...