Word: piedmonte
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What he lacks in experience (one season in the Piedmont League, two Army years with the Randolph Field team) is heavily outweighed by 23-year-old Dave Ferriss' superabundant self-confidence. The batters say he has a deceptive motion, almost uncanny control, a natural sinker, a sidearmed curve that is murder for right-handed batsmen. Almost alone, ambidextrous Ferriss boosted the slow-starting Red Sox from last to third place...
...Francisco attorney, Chickering had traveled in Europe and Asia, had gone to Hotchkiss and Yale. In 1938 he had married Audrey Madden. When the news of her husband's death came, she was living in Piedmont, Calif., with their four-year-old son. Last week she said: "He had to go back to the Pacific. He had seen it start there and it was logical...
...have decided to withdraw from public affairs by appointing my son, the Prince of Piedmont, Lieutenant General of the Realm [TIME, April 17]. This appointment will become effective by a formal transfer of power on the day on which the Allied troops enter Rome. This decision ... is final and irrevocable...
...Italy's anti-Fascist parties last week made a compromise. They had been confused by Anglo-U.S. dithering, chivvied by Russian pressure, adamant in demanding the abdication of little King Vittorio Emanuele III. Into this deadlock stepped the King's heir, six-foot Umberto, Prince of Piedmont, with an offer to become his father's keeper while the old King kept the crown. By no means fond of Umberto but for want of anything better, anti-Fascist leaders were in a mood to accept...
...father made a fortune in timber and turpentine, lost it at the end of World War I, at a moment when he was fighting the unions and the war's end had tied up business in naval stores. One of eight children, Lillian Smith studied in Piedmont College, Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory, Columbia University. In 1922 she went to China (where her brother-in-law was American head of the Y.M.C.A.), taught Methodist hymns to Chinese moppets in revolutionary Hu-chow, just as the Chinese revolution was reaching the boiling point...