Word: morganization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Probably by then Vic Raschi, Allie Reynolds, and Eddie Lopat won't be the three best money pitchers in the American Leage--as they are now. Instead it will probably be Tom Morgan, Whitey Ford or some kid still pitching for Tarriffville Junior High. Of course, its hard to win a pennant with only three pitchers (see Indians) and they'll need some aces like Bill Miller--if only against the Tigers--Bob Kuzava, and Bo Weisler...
...find out about architecture. When he was 20, he went to New York and applied for a job with the most famous firm of architects in the U.S., McKim, Mead & White. They had put up half the nouveau riche palaces in Newport, R.I., and had just built the Morgan Library in Manhattan, while some Bellevue Hospital buildings, the Racquet and Tennis Club and several Columbia University buildings were among the projects on their drawing boards. Harrison wanted the job so much that he said he would work for nothing. He was taken at his word and set to drawing plans...
...Minot C. Morgan, director of the aid bureau, said net summer earnings per man increased $100 over the 1951 average. The 1000 tiger men who worked this summer earned an average of $400 apiece...
...these hopes, it causes a thunderstorm to break over Hell; much of Roaring Mountain is devoted to this special type of weather reporting. Cf The Silent Land's hero is one of the finest, go-gettingest he-men in contemporary writing-a Winsor version of Lanny Budd. Miles Morgan's eyes were "green, speckled with bronze." He had "fieriness . . . gaiety and a sense of poetry in everything he did"-which included reaching under Heroine Amoret's sweater and giving her a sharp pinch. But Miles is at his best when he reaches behind the Iron Curtain...
...symphonic" bands were the rage. Napoleon organized one of his own. Among its 15 members were Glenn Miller, Russ Morgan, Joe Venuti, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, and Artie Shaw. It anticipated the age of swing by half a dozen years, but never caught on outside of Brooklyn. Phil Napoleon left the jazz business and became a trumpeter-of-all-work at N.B.C. There, for 22 years, he played "Stravinsky one hour, soap opera the next." Finally he decided he was ready to quit playing...