Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chartered DC-6 roared down the runway, bound for St. Louis, the atmosphere inside was glum enough: the staggering Cardinals had just dropped a doubleheader to the Pittsburgh Pirates. It quickly got worse. Just 30 seconds after takeoff, a portside engine conked out, and Cardinal ballplayers stared tensely at the feathered prop. Only Stan Musial seemed unruffled. Grinning from ear to ear, he turned to a teammate: "I can see the headline now. CARDINAL PLANE CRASHES -MUSIAL LONE SURVIVOR...
Last week Block, 24, a Belgian-born Frenchman who lives in Mexico City, was back before the judges* for another try at the Leventritt Award, which brings $1,000 in cash and appearances with the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Buffalo and Denver symphony orchestras. Onto a stage at the Metropolitan Museum of Art paraded four other finalists: Ralph Votapek, who gracefully turned the willowy phrases of Beethoven's Concerto No. 4; Bela Szilagi, whose Brahms and Liszt were played with cohesive intensity; Marilyn Neeley, a petite brunette who mastered the pyrotechnics of Tchaikovsky with brute female strength...
Chicago 3, Pittsburgh...
...Louis 4, Philadelphia 1, Pittsburgh 3, Chicago 4, Houston 3, New York 2, Los Angeles 3, San Francisco...
...Pittsburgh 8, Cincinnati...