Word: navin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Connie Mack was selling players and Detroit needed a new manager. Owner Frank J. Navin called in Sportswriter H. G. Salsinger of the Detroit News and said: "I can get Babe Ruth from the Yankees for practically nothing or Mickey Cochrane for $100,000. Which would you take...
...week for the 17th "Muny" opening there were 10,000 ardent spectators, a new producer, a new operetta and a new lighting system. The new producer was Broadway's smart Laurence Schwab (Good News, New Moon), successor to J. J. Shubert who has taken the "Muny" idea to Navin Field, Detroit. The new operetta was Teresina, a confection by Vienna's old Oscar Straus (Chocolate Soldier). At a cost of $25,000 two giant towers had been built to flank the big revolving stage, flood it with light, support an over-head bridge which provides more lights...
First Game. A jubilant crowd of 45,000, eager to see the city's first pennant-winning team in 25 years, crowded into Detroit's Navin Field. Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, promptly punctured their excitement. While he was allowing Detroit's Tigers eight hits, his teammate Joseph ("Ducky-Wucky") Medwick made three singles and a homerun that helped the Cardinals...
...were not for such bilingual scientists as Bertrand Russell, James Jeans, Arthur Eddington, J. B. S. Haldane, the flimsy bridge between modern science and modern life would be made of newspapers. Of the contemporary interpreters of science, the most lucid are Russell, Haldane and John William Navin Sullivan. Himself more of a plain man than a scientist, Interpreter Sullivan puts his meaty subject in a nutshell, then cracks the nut. In no uncertain terms, Author Sullivan states the findings, seekings, final uncertainty of modern science. From Pythagoras to Einstein he traces its development: from philosophy through magic and materialism...
...GRACE OF GOD-J. W. N. Sullivan-Knopf. Few U. S. writers on science approach the authority and lucid readableness of England's Bertrand Russell and John William Navin Sullivan. Laymen curious about what science is up to can turn with reasonable hopefulness to Russell's The A B C of Atoms, Sullivan's Three Men Discuss Relativity. In this brief (220-page), disarming autobiography, Journalist Sullivan, calling himself Julian Shaughnessy, explains about himself with the same simple sincerity he uses to explain Bach or Bohr. Realistic, humble, Sullivan calls popular works on science...