Word: phil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tonsil, The Bony Baritone, The Sultan of Swoon-"none other" (as Jimmy Durante expressed it) "than Moonlight Sinatra." Radio comics gnawed ecstatically on the famous skinnybones. "The pipestem Caruso." "He has to pass a place twice before he casts a shadow." "I know the food here is lousy," cracked Phil Silvers as Frank walked onstage in their Army show, "but this is ridiculous...
...from the Milk Route. Roy Campanella has been nurturing that dream ever since he was 15, when he started playing baseball for pay in a North Phil adelphia neighborhood known as Nicetown, where he was born 34 years ago. From his Sicilian father, piano-legged Roy inherited his proportions and a capacity for enjoying hard work. While he supported a wife and five hungry kids on the pro ceeds of a vegetable wagon. John Cam panella still managed to save enough cash to chip in with his brothers and open a chain of neighborhood groceries. From his Negro mother...
...Flag!" At the West Point Museum, the President pored over Custer's last battle map of the Little Big Horn country, and the courier's note that brought his last despairing cry for rein forcements. "Oh, look at this," cried the President, espying "Little Phil" Sheridan's gold-plated Winchester. Then, through an open doorway, the President spotted the flaming-sword emblem of his Supreme Headquarters in Europe, and he blurted: "Oh, by gosh, there's my old flag. I'd forgotten I sent that up here." Afterward, the President noted to a couple...
...victory cost the Communists more than the U.A.W. Emboldened, the C.I.O.'s late President Phil Murray acted at last to cut the deep-seated Red rot out of the C.I.O. : eleven Communist-controlled unions were expelled and have since withered. Phil Murray, who once rated Reuther a bumptious redhead, eventually be came his friend and ally. When Murray died in 1952, Reuther ran for C.I.O. president. His campaign divided the C.I.O. bitterly. As usual...
...third baseman Phil Mathias slammed a solid single to center field, and Ward walkd the next batter. Yale shortstop Phil Schiffino, who had struck out in his first two plate appearances, then spanked a double to right center field, scoring Mathias. Mackenzie, who had also struck out twice, laced another double down the right field Hu, scoring two more runs...