Word: mortes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should keep their class if they can keep 1-A Catcher Walker Cooper. Manager Billy Southworth, who must replace Stan Musial (the league's No. 2 hitter last year with a .347 average), Johnny Hopp (.336) and Danny Litwhiler (.264), still has the best pitching staff (Mort Cooper, Max Lanier, Ted Wilks, Harry Brecheen, Blix Donnelly) in either league, and Shortstop Marty ("Most Valuable Player") Marion. Apparently capable of giving the three-time league champs a run for their money are two western rivals...
...Jill's show is an outgrowth of an OWI radio program begun in 1942 with her husband, ex-Radioman Mort Werner. As "Jack and Jill" they served up a mixture of jazz and banter called Hi, Neighbor. A.F.R.S. took over the program in the spring of 1943. Soon Jill (minus Jack) was doing a solo act called G.I. Jive (now AEF Jukebox...
Chapple socked the sphere for a 432 average, just 124 points above his closest rival among the regulars, Mort Dunn. Playing the full nine innings in every one of the team's ten contests, Chapple was the only member of the starting nine to hit safely in every one of the games. In addition, the keystone-sacker came in second in the total bases column, finishing one behind the 19 of Wallace, who, despite an average of only 270, smashed out two doubles, two triples, and one home run to lead the squad in extra-base blows...
Three victories in as many days lifted the Bellboys out of their second division berth. On Tuesday, the aroused club edged a favored Company D, 11-8, then overwhelmed slumping Company E by 8-1 on Wednesday, as Varsity third baseman Mort Dunn pitched a neat two-hitter. Regular pitcher Wally Robb followed with a 4 to 3 win over last place Company A yesterday to put Lowell in the first place battle...
...Mort aux Boches! They were more than eager to talk to the Americans. They said the Americans would be welcomed generally by the French patriots. The Germans, they said, had been very correct in their social relations with the French, but had eaten the cream of the crop and had compelled the Frenchmen to work on beach fortifications, and the French women to do their laundry, for which they paid...