Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game he pitched for the Verdi (Nev.) Ramblers against the Fallen (Nev.) Merchants in the Sierra Nevada League he will never forget. Verdi's starting pitcher walked the first three men up. "Then they took him out for wildness and put me in," Frank recalls. Frank's best pitch in those days was a sidearm fast ball, thrown with a kind of rural free delivery-sometimes the ball went all over the countryside. His first pitch caught the batter in the back, forcing in a run. His second hit the next batter, and forced in another...
...chance to watch the Cards' workout from the bench, courtesy of Owner Busch. While there, a front-office man told him that the Cards had in their files an old scout report on him. It said: fast but wild; watch. Frank finished college at the University of Nevada ('41), worked as a reporter for the United Press, and joined the Marines to fight in World...
Then McCarthy tried to withdraw his resolution. Johnson and Knowland forced the resolution to a vote, and McCarthy lost, 77 to 4. Aside from Joe, the only remaining adherents of McCarthywasm were Indiana's Jenner, Nevada's Malone and North Dakota's Langer...
Chester H. Lauck, 53, the "Lum" of the radio and movie team of Lum 'n' Abner, was named an executive assistant in Houston's Continental Oil Co. Lauck, longtime cattle raiser (on his 143,000-acre Nevada ranch) and veteran of a score of radio years, was a businessman (manager of the Citizen's Finance Corp. of Mena, Ark.) before he turned to radio. Continental President L. F. McCollum said that while Lauck will have administrative duties with the company, he will also "be available as an after-dinner speaker and for other community gatherings...
...Bates Manufacturing Co., of Lewiston, Me., to become president of Burlington Industries Inc. Ruhm, who was on the losing side in the recent proxy fight for control of Bates that was won by Consolidated Textiles' Lester Martin, graduated from Yale ('23), got his first job in a Nevada mine, leaving after a year to work for Standard Oil (N.J.). He entered textiles in 1928 with Associated Dry Goods, moved to Bates in 1937, will serve as deputy to Burlington's board chairman, Spencer Love...