Word: old
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past two seasons, Joe Kuhel. Later, he proudly announced the purchase of Irv Noren, a promising outfielder from the Pacific Coast League, for $70,000. Last week, Griffith swung another deal he knew would please Washington fans: he signed up Stanley Raymond ("Bucky") Harris, his 52-year-old former "boy-wonder" manager, whom he had fired twice before...
...five first got together in a North Hollywood High School dance band. When it began to look more like a rut than a groove, 17-year-old Piano Player Johnny ("Curley") Williams (named after his drummer father) broke away and formed his own quintet. He took with him Mel Sidney, a bullfiddle slapper like his dad, Al Pollen. Other recruits were 16-year-old Perry ("Bunny") Bodtkin, the trombone-playing son of Bing Crosby's guitar accompanist, and Gene Estes and Don Ingle. "Boy," says Curley, "we yanked the nucleus right out of that Hollywood High band...
...murder got routine treatment from Baltimore newspapers: in a fight between white and black boys one afternoon three weeks ago in Carroll Park, a 19-year-old Negro named Linwood Matthews was stabbed to death. After the police arrested an 18-year-old white boy and charged him with murder, Baltimore went on about its business...
...Yale's American School of Oriental Research, scholars' eyes popped as the examination progressed: the ancient Hebrew manuscripts, written in Aramaic, appeared to be Old Testament writings dating back more than 2,000 years to the 2nd Century B.C. If the estimate was right, the scrolls were the world's oldest texts from biblical times...
...wartime chief of the Army Service Forces, General Brehon Burke Somervell handled the world's biggest supply problem, and got a bellyful of civilian gibes at Army red tape. Last week Old Soldier Somervell, now president of Koppers Co., told the Baltimore Association of Commerce of another kind of pain: he was fed up with the red tape and regulations which the Government has loaded onto businessmen...