Word: nicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard came up for last licks with visiting hurler Nick Nichols confident of victory. Billy Parsons pinch hit for Berg and was tossed out by Nichols. Then Cleo O'Donnell, subbing for Heath, drove a looper to center, advancing on Stort Waldstein's walk...
...Rudman lost his mound battle with visiting hurler Dean Ellis in the fourth inning, when a lapse in the Crimson inner defense allowed the lone score. After Lawrence slugger Nick Rodis whaled a triple to deep left, Rudman issued his only pass to Joe Hennessey. Then, with men on first and third, the Lawrence squad pulled a double steal, successful because shortstop Jim Gallagher and second sacker Vinnie Leahy crossed their signals on a cut-off play designed to nail Rodis at the plate...
...didn't always preserve the most amicable relations with his boss. But he nevertheless deserves a really good job where crowds of citizens will pour in to see and hear him. A situation in some favorable New York spot, perhaps, in competition with Teddy Wilson and the Chicagoans at Nick's, would really prove his mettle...
...Kaminsky, the little Chicago-style trum-peter from Dorchester, left Nick's, New York clearing house of the Chicago musicians, last week to spend a few days up here away from the frenzy of collective improvisation that goes on there nightly . . . Listen to Ruby Smith's Decca record of "Harlem Gin Blues" for a little uninhibited vocal ribaldry . . . Columbia expects to issue some records by Red Norvo's band, which was heard in Boston some weeks ago, with Mildred Bailey singing the refrains as of yore...
...there was more music in him than preaching. When Benjamin Hanby died at 33, he had written 75 songs. Two others are still sung today: a children's Christmas song, Up on the Housetop (Up on the housetop, click, click, click; Down through the chimney with good St. Nick), and the hymn Who Is He?, included in the hymnal of the Church of England in Canada...