Word: philadelphia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
BROOKLYN, Sept. 26--Robin Roberts threw a dark blanket over Brooklyn's pennant hopes today by pitching the Philadelphia Phillies to a 7-3 victory that dumped the desperate Dodgers a full game behind the league leading Milwaukee Braves...
Brooklyn 5, Philadelphia...
...connections. The contracts that piled up in his combine's safes bore the signatures of such eminent names as Menuhin, Heifetz, Elman, Horowitz, Pons, Gigli. Eventually, his ever-spreading ventures were bitterly opposed by such musicians as Leopold Stokowski, who reportedly maneuvered Judson's resignation from the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1934, and by the U.S. Government itself, which won an antitrust suit against Columbia Artists and an affiliate last year...
...that way all week. In Philadelphia the Braves woke up for a long evening, took both overtime halves of a doubleheader. The effort exhausted them. They blew the next two to the feeble Phillies...
Many U.S. companies have developed elaborate programs of civic aid. Chicago's Marshall Field department store has a special vice president in charge of civic affairs. In Philadelphia, N. W. Ayer Chairman Harry A. Batten organized the Greater Philadelphia Movement, which will open a $100 million Food Distribution Center in 1958 and eliminate crowded, unsanitary markets in the heart of the city. Each year in Houston, Humble Oil & Refining Co. lends a full-time staff of 100 Humble employees to help organize the United Fund drive, while Boeing Airplane Co. President William Allen, who is 1956 national chairman...