Word: philadelphia
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...average. He also led the league in home runs (29) and in runs batted in (78). Though temporarily out of the lineup with a gimpy left ankle, he has a solid chance of becoming the first National Leaguer to win clear title to these three championships since Philadelphia's Chuck Klein turned the trick in 1933 at the age of 27. But for the life of him, Aaron cannot explain how he does it. He just hits the baseball. "I'm up there with a bat, and all the pitcher's got is the ball," says...
Myrna Ann Tubby, 3, a Choctaw papoose from the reservation at Philadelphia, Miss., was as slack as a rag doll when she was admitted to the Mississippi Medical Center at Jackson. She was completely paralyzed, she did not cry and probably could not have done so even if in pain...
NATIONAL LEAGUE Team: St. Louis (by ½ game). Pitcher: Sanford, Philadelphia (11-2). Batter: Aaron, Milwaukee (.347). RBI: Aaron (75). Home Runs: Aaron...
...Negro pastor. District Superintendent Ray W. Ragsdale appointed 39-year-old Nelson Burlin Higgins Jr. A descendant of four generations of preachers, Higgins is a husky ex-athlete who went through Louisiana's Roman Catholic Xavier University on a football scholarship, later trained for the ministry at Philadelphia's Temple University...
Died. Ernest Tener Weir, 81, retired (April, 1957) board chairman, chief executive officer and founder of the National Steel Corp.; of multiple cerebral hemorrhages; in Philadelphia (see BUSINESS...