Word: pensacola
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Florida-born Martha Beck appeared to be eminently respectable. She was the mother of two, a Methodist, an experienced hospital superintendent. Little Ray got her name through a "Lonely Hearts Club" where he started most of his pitches, and he wrote her admiring letters. But when he went to Pensacola to meet her, he discovered that she was not quite his type-she had no money. Also, she weighed 200 Ibs., had wrestler's arms, a terraced chin and the cold eye of a jail matron...
...Navy has had to sink the ships which survived Bikini. Last week the submarine Skate and the transport Crittenden were destroyed during landing maneuvers off Southern California. Next month the heavy cruiser Pensacola and the destroyer Hughes will be sent to the bottom. Two years and three months after Bikini, all four were still radioactive...
...farm system baseball's biggest, outspreading the famed St. Louis Cardinals' system, which he built. The tree that Rickey is growing in Brooklyn (see chart) has 25 branches. This year 450 of its finest fruits were processed in Rickey's new training school at Pensacola...
...share of the thousands of words a week filed by sports writers were about the Rufe Leonards rather than the Stan Musials. At Pensacola, Fla., the Dodgers had 242 rookies attending a baseball school at an abandoned Navy airbase. One good bet: Negro Jackie Robinson will start the season in Brooklyn as a first baseman...
...heavy cruiser Pensacola, the only ship which showed serious damage below the main deck. She, too, had a deep depression in an armored deck amidships...