Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Midwestern summer is never so dismal that it cannot be brightened by the sight of Stan Musial at the plate or the pleasure of second-guessing hard-luck Manager Eddie Stanky. For a few weeks this spring, the bleacher jockeys even got a kick out of razzing Rookie Wally Moon in the outfield. "Where's Enos?" they would yell. Did that lanky, crew-cut college boy really think he could fill in for Enos ("Country"') Slaughter...
Just about the happiest thing that has happened in St. Louis all season is that Moon has made the grade. He is filling in for Slaughter so well that the fans have almost forgiven the Cardinal management for selling old Enos to the Yankees. Unless he suddenly picks up the habit of catching fly balls on his head, Wallace Wade Moon is a sure bet to be selected National League Rookie of the Year...
...there were no such irritants as the Viet Minh. Each had a red pencil in his hand. Beneath their hands the map was slashed with red lines, until Viet Nam began to look like a body crisscrossed with bloody welts. On the lawn outside, a dog howled at the moon...
...time to coach four U.S. Olympic teams. After Webb training, Olympians Frankie Genaro and Fidel La Barba went on to take turns holding the world flyweight championship. At Annapolis, meanwhile, Spike turned out such salty scrappers as Rear Admiral William V. ("Mickey") O'Regan and Submariner Captain Wreford ("Moon") Chapple...
...evidence that jazz is enjoying its biggest boom in years, with record sales soaring and nightclubs sprouting new jazz acts all over the country. A crowd of 6,000 fans jammed into Newport's dingy old open-air Casino for the first-night concert. There was a clear moon overhead as Oldtimer Eddie Condon, a little ill at ease in all the fresh air, stamped his foot four times and swung into Muskrat Ramble, sweeping along his bang-up Dixieland outfit, including Clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, Trumpeter Wild Bill Davison, Pianist Ralph Sutton. The music...