Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nine children of John Wallace, a high-tempered farmer who emigrated from Ireland to Pennsylvania. Eight of the nine children died of consumptive diseases. But grandfather Henry lived to be almost 80-an ordained minister in the United Presbyterian Church, a doer and dreamer, a smoker of Pittsburgh stogies, a man of vast physical bulk, who quit the regular ministry to homestead, later to edit and write for the family's Wallaces' Farmer. He wrote a three-volume story of his life and a robust column, "Uncle Henry's Sabbath School Lesson," which...
...Louis insisted that he was through with fighting. Billy Conn, who retired from the ring after his second fight with Joe, was thinking of changing his mind. In Texas, he phoned a promoter-friend that he would go back to Pittsburgh in about a month to begin intensive training...
...only real international art show in the world (since Pittsburgh's Carnegie International went domestic) is the Biennial, held in Venice's Public Gardens. Seventeen countries (including the U.S., which made a belated entry this week) sent their best paintings and sculptures. Just one pavilion, the Russian, stood empty, its iron doors bolted...
...Pittsburgh's Schenley Hotel, where the Giants themselves first heard about their new boss, the players sat around like men in a trance until 4 p.m., when Leo breezed into town. He was bulging with confidence. He had been studying the Giants from the Dodger dugout. He pointed to Johnny Mize, his new first baseman, and said: "Mize, you know you're no Hal Chase around the bag, but you're a good player and a great hitter. I want you to show a little life . . ." Then he singled out Catcher Walker Cooper: "When...
...Satchel pitched in 42 games, won 31, lost four. In 1936 he pitched (and won) five games in one week. His idolizing Negro fans expect him to play in every game. Satchel once pitched a no-hitter in Pittsburgh, drove all night to Chicago, shut out another team in twelve innings next day. Pitching for the Kansas City Monarchs in the 1942 Negro World Series, Showoff Satchel purposely passed a man to get Catcher Josh Gibson (Negro baseball's Babe Ruth) at bat, then forced him to send...