Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divining Rod. In Pittsburgh, while Clerk Marie Wray was showing a customer a surplus Army rifle, the gun pointed in the direction of Customer Chester Hoak, who threw up his arms, said. "I surrender," turned out to be wanted by police for passing bad checks in nearby stores...
After defeating Pittsburgh's Tony Vuocolo In 2:56 in the preliminary round of the Easterns, Foster won the next round with a 4-2 decision over Gene Appel of Columbia. Then, in the semi-finals, he turned back Doug Volugenau of Navy 8 to 5. Foster lost in the finals, however, dropping a 9-4 decision to Lehigh's Ed Hammer...
Judges were Rev. Frank D. McCloy, Jr. A.M. '42, associate professor and former dean of Western Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh, Paul C. Reardon '32, Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court, and Matthew P. Gaffney, Roy Edward Larsen Professor of Education...
...dope," and now that he is back, he has marijuana-sized dreams for the White Sox. Chicago is a potential gold mine, says Veeck: "Industry is diversified so that if one sector of the economy is hurting, it doesn't kill you like it would in Detroit or Pittsburgh." He intends to pull all the stops. His first object, he says, is "putting on the field the best ball club." Then come the gimmicks: fireworks shows at $1,000 a clip, a baby-sitting service for mothers, free nylons for the ladies, bands in the stands, special "nights...
Belle, 27, is Pittsburgh's onetime "boy wonder" of finance, wanted for bilking three Eastern banks out of $825,000. Cage, 41, is under sentence to ten years in prison for embezzling $100,000 from the Texas insurance company he once headed. Both fled south just ahead of justice and took refuge in the fact that Brazil has no extradition treaty with the U.S. and refuses to sign one as long as the U.S. permits capital punishment-which is long enough for Cage and Belle...