Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tootle a cornet in the school band at political rallies. ("It could have soured me for life.") At the University of Washington he studied law, played second base for a team that won three regional championships and toured Japan. After graduation he opened a law practice and met a Pittsburgh girl named Evelyn Baker, who, while visiting in Seattle, had spotted his picture in the university yearbook and remarked, "Look at that beautiful smile." One of Art's Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity brothers arranged a blind date. Result (three years later): matrimony...
Even St. Louis' hard-case fans were not that angry at Stan. But watching The Man fumble like a Pittsburgh infielder trying for a double play was the final indignity. After many a loyal but losing season, Redbird fans are fed up. They managed to stomach the trade two years ago of their old favorite, Enos Slaughter. They made only a routine beef when General Manager Frank Lane got rid of such bright hopes as Outfielder Bill Virdon (now batting .311 for Pittsburgh), Pitcher Brooks Lawrence (who has won 16, lost 7 for Cincinnati) and Southpaw Harvey Haddix...
...Caps with Arabic lettering went to a milk company in Beirut, Lebanon. Caps with "Pida Pepsi'' and "Quaker Oats, Mucha Nutricion a Poco Costo" went to Mexico. Caps went to fruit peddlers in Vicenza, Italy, to soft-drink vendors in Caracas, Venezuela, to pickle packers in Pittsburgh...
ARVEY: Dave [presumably Pittsburgh's Mayor David Lawrence] doesn't like...
...presidential race since the 19305. But U.S. businessmen as a group gave little evidence of apprehension or even of quickened interest in politics. In Boston and Seattle, Republican committeemen reported that substantially fewer businessmen had volunteered for electioneering duty than in 1952. The same was true in Pittsburgh, where one industrialist explained: "Everyone figures Ike is a shoo-in. The same old warhorses are still the active ones in both parties...