Word: older
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago, son of a landscape gardener and a mother who hated baseball. He was one of a family of nine-or sixteen. This mathematical inexactitude did not trouble Cleveland's President Bill Veeck last week. For all Veeck cared, Satchel might be "two or three decades" older than the next man-as long as he could pitch. Bob Feller had told Veeck that Paige was the relief man the league-leading Indians so desperately needed...
...that it was more profitable to give Citation his work in the afternoon. Jones entered the wonder horse in the $50,000 Stars & Stripes handicap at Arlington Park, Ill., his first race since winning the triple crown (TIME, June 21). It was only Citation's third race against older horses, easily the toughest handicap field he had ever faced. He was giving away chunks of weight to seven of the other eight horses. And no three-year-old had ever won the 20-year-old Stars & Stripes...
...victory a three-year-old could be proud of-but it had been too risky. Said Trainer Jones: "I think I made a mistake in letting Citation run . . ." Next fall, Citation might be started against older horses again, in weight-for-age stakes. But for the time being Citation would take fewer chances with his laurels...
With some minor changes, the 1948-49 draftees could look forward to just about what their older brothers faced in 1940. Most of them would go into the Army, while the Navy and Air Force would rely mainly on volunteers. Basic training would last eight weeks at the start, be increased to 12 to 13 weeks as soon as emergency manpower shortages were filled. All draftees would be eligible for promotion. The biggest difference between 1940 and 1948 would be in the method of selection. Instead of the goldfish bowl lottery, draftees would be picked by age groups, would...
...then comes Tilly Cuff. An angular, screechy older cousin of Mrs. Brocken, this creature, "yellow as a plucked chicken," is a busybody who can "scent a private conversation as a cat scents fish." Her cheeks hideously rouged, her arms like drumsticks and her gown some 20 years behind the fashion, Tilly barges into the well-arranged life of Chipping Lodge to create havoc. Mrs. Brocken has invited her because she has a guilty recollection of having, in girlhood days, maliciously prevented Tilly from accepting the one marriage offer ever to come her way. Now, as recompense, quixotic Mrs. Brocken proposes...