Word: pittsburgh
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...been in good causes. He has probably played more benefits than any other performer-as many as seven in one night. In 1946, he set up the Milton Berle Foundation for Crippled Children. He has done marathon radio shows (from 12-24 hours) in New York, Chicago, Baltimore and Pittsburgh to raise funds for heart associations. Last year he spent four hours clowning with each of 75 patients in a Chicago hospital for children with rheumatic fever. Said a witness: "He has a way with kids, a way of being a kid himself...
...next day, back in uniform and full of grace, The Lip walked modestly across the Polo Grounds to the Giants' dugout. The public-address system blared a recording of When You Were Sweet Sixteen ("I love you as I never loved before"), and his team clobbered the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates 11-4. This week, on advice of counsel, Fred Boysen, the young Puerto Rican who tangled with Durocher, dropped his charge of simple assault...
...Pittsburgh (Casey) 3, St. Louis...
Boston (Bickford) 4, Pittsburgh...
Mordecal Peter (Three Finger) Brown and Charles A. (Kid) Nichels, two great Pitchers of the past, today joined 56 other baseball immortals in the game's Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N. Y. AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston 10 (Johnson), St. Louis 6 Pittsburgh 3 (Chambers), Boston 3 Boston 4(Hughson), St. Louis 3 Pittsburgh 11 (Carey), Boston 3 New York 12 (Byrne), Detroit 0 New York 10 (Jansen), Chicago 1 Washington 7 (Searb'r'ugh), Cleveland 3 Brooklyn 3 (Minner), St. Louis 7 Washington 2 (Hudson), Cleveland 0 Cincinnati 14 (Ruffensberger), Philadelphia 3 (McCahan), Chicago 2 Philadelphia 7 Chicago...