Word: mize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Herbert Mize Jr. is an Episcopal minister who is conducting an experiment. That experiment has sometimes roused the good citizens of Ellsworth, Kans. to unholy wrath. But this week Kansans were digging down as usual to give Mize the money he needs for his St. Francis Boys' Home. Said one bank vice president wonderingly: "This man is Christlike, all right, but he's a genius at raising money...
...Mize, 40, took his B.A. in journalism at the University of Kansas and went to work for the United Press. He was a good newspaperman; one night he made up his mind that he would be a better minister...
...week, with eight games of the season still left, a tall young ex-Navy pilot named Ralph Kiner became the fifth. He banged No. 50 into the left-field Scoreboard at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field, which put him one up on the New York Giants' Big John Mize (TIME, Aug. 25) in the race to be 1947's home-run king. Mize became the sixth to make the 50 Club two days later...
...contrast to Ruth, who was good and didn't care who knew it, the Giants' boss slugger is inclined to be diffident about it all. Says Mize of the Babe's record: "I've never broken it and I don't know why I would this year." Walker Cooper admits that the Giants are likely to beat the team record this year-but, he adds, "it's up to the rest. Lord knows...
Family Affair. Ailing Babe Ruth himself, 15 years a Yankee player, has become a Giant fan-partly because he likes to see home runs, partly (he explains) because the Polo Grounds are closer than Yankee Stadium to his apartment on Manhattan's Riverside Drive. Ruth doubts that Mize or anybody else will break his record; but if somebody has to break it, he hopes that big Jawn will be the man. Mize is Mrs. Ruth's second cousin, and the Babe would like to keep the record in the family...