Word: named
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when the ballots were counted, it was 757 for to 172 against. Dr. Fifield summoned his followers to a protest meeting at the Hotel Statler. His dire prediction: 500 to 1,000 churches will withdraw to form a separate group, and litigation will begin over use of the Congregational name...
...league glow. The Basketball Association of America is a twelve-city circuit, playing to enthusiastic crowds from Manhattan's Madison Square Garden to St. Louis' Arena. Its stars get paid as much as $17,500 for a 20-week season. Like Mikan, most of the big-name basketball pros come out of topflight collegiate ranks...
Shuffling & Jumping. It was not entirely an accident. Fast-talking Frankie Laine (real name: Frank LoVecchio) had picked himself a "safe" repertory: "Who doesn't want to hear On the Sunny Side of the Street, Body and Soul and All of Me? You can't miss with them." And he had learned to put on a show to take a bobby-soxer's heart. In the old days he sang with his eyes closed ("I couldn't bear to look at the audience"). Now he sings with his eyes wide open and swiveling in their sockets...
Died. Al ("Frenchy") LaRue (real name: Egidio Romagnoli), 60, self-styled ex-triggerman for the Capone mob, who was deported from the U.S. to Italy in 1938,* later tagged along with invading G.I.s as a scout (he got the Bronze Star); by his own hand (automatic pistol); during a police checkup; in Trieste...
...seeks to pour oil upon the waters, when God has brewed them into a gale! Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal! Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness...