Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason for the club's success was the inspired playing of a graceful, young (24) rookie second baseman named Jerry Coleman. An ex-Marine pilot who flew 57 strikes in the South Pacific, modest Jerry Coleman hit a modest .251 with Newark last year. During the winter to build himself up, he swung an overweighted bat in the cellar of his San Francisco home, faithfully executed 25 pushups morning & night. At week's end, Coleman had hit safely in seven consecutive games, had a fat .400 average. That was not as good as Rookie Johnny Groth...
...from Broadway (Sunny, 1925, The Little Show, 1929) who was finding life in Hollywood exactly to his taste (see CINEMA). Being a star again, he confided to an interviewer, was "fun, a lot of fun, and I love it. There's no use pretending I'm a modest fellow . . . Some day I shall write a song called I Fascinate...
...Arizona-born Stan, who had figured on retiring with a modest pension at 50, Riders will probably bring about $30,000. And Stan has more songs on the griddle. One is called Whirlwind, and his publishers are puffing it as "just as good as Riders." The ranch of his own, complete with organ, that Stan wanted by 1965, looked much closer...
...unlikely to get any this year or next. What, asked one stockholder, was the long-range outlook? Good, said Ed Noble; in a decade TV would be one of the country's great industries. Meanwhile, he said frankly, he would not recommend ABC stock to the investor with modest savings, because "this is a new field and hence the stock must be regarded as a speculation...
...strictest military secrecy, Muroc Air Force Base is a strange sort of community. In all it does, it is dedicated to military aircraft performance, with special emphasis on speed. In the realm of speed it also has its king. He is Captain Charles ("Chuck") Yeager, 26, a modest, blue-eyed test pilot with an infectious grin and an easy West Virginia drawl. What makes Chuck Yeager outstanding, even among the crack pilots at Muroc, is the fact that his name is certain to go down prominently in aviation history books. Chuck Yeager was the first man to break through...