Word: mcloughlin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Homecide. In Columbus, Clarence McLoughlin decided to kill himself, disconnected a gas pipe in his one-story clapboard home, dozed off, later reached for a cigarette, struck a light that demolished the house, suffered only minor injuries, was found still lying on his couch in the wreckage, told firemen: "I forgot about...
Died. Maurice Evans ("The California Comet") McLoughlin, 67, hard-hitting pre-World War I tennis champ, who revolutionized the game :by twice winning the U.S. Championship (1912, 1913) with his big serve, violent overhead smashes and net-rushing tactics (all previously unknown in big-time Eastern tennis), retired in 1919 after a decisive quarter-finals loss to Richard Norris Williams II; of a heart attack; in Hermosa Beach, Calif...
...back over its long history, the U.S.L.T.A. celebrated its Diamond Jubilee by naming the alltime first ten U.S. tennis players: 1) William T. Tilden II, 2) J. Donald Budge, 3) John A. Kramer, 4) William M. Johnston, 5) H. Ellsworth Vines Jr., 6) Richard A. Gonzales, 7) Maurice E. McLoughlin, 8) William A. Larned, 9) R. N. Williams II, 10) Robert L. Riggs...
BILLY SUNDAY WAS HIS REAL NAME (325 pp.)- William G. McLoughlin Jr. -University of Chicago Press...
Forgotten Man. Were the thousands who hit the sawdust trail much different from what they were before they hit? Author William G. McLoughlin Jr., a political science professor at Brown University and Billy Sunday's first full-dress biographer, believes that most of the "converts" were already pious members of the rural middle class, giving themselves a resounding vote of confidence. Sunday's product was relatively painless. Only a hog-jowled anarchist, an evil foreign monarch or a bedizened society woman could object to it. Billy's converts did not have to wrestle with the Lord...