Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scoop") Carey (originally Max Carnarius). Hamil ton, a hard-hitting igth century National Leaguer who set the alltime league record for stolen bases with 797 in an era when the catcher stood far behind the plate, died in 1940. Carey, like Hamilton an out fielder, ran rampant with Pittsburgh and Brooklyn for 20 years after leaving St. Louis' Concordia Seminary in 1910. A prodigious student of the game ("Babe Ruth killed scientific ball"), Carey mem orized the mannerisms of pitchers, once pulled nine consecutive successful double steals with a teammate named Casey Sten gel, established the modern National League...
...effect on the city's civic life, says he reads the Times of London to keep up with international news. The American daily newspaper is dying at an impressive rate: 76 papers have gone out of existence in the past five years, with three major dailies--the Cleveland News, Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph and Detroit Times--and nine smaller papers folding in the past year...
Today, the death of a newspaper often leaves a city with a monopoly press: Pittsburgh, for example, had seven dailies in 1923; now there are only two, one morning and one evening. Cleveland, another city of more than a half million, is in the same situation, while Albany, the capital of New York State, has two papers, both under the same ownership. Along with the death of the dailies and the spread of one-paper towns, the past few decades have seen the rise of absentee ownership of newspapers, as the older chains like Hearst, Scripps-Howard and Gannett...
...could attend any of the ten-week terms; without taking a summer vacation, a student could graduate in three years. The academic load might be changed to three courses. Rescheduling and calendar shuffling certainly are not expensive, considering the manifest advantages, and have been proved worthwhile at Dartmouth and Pittsburgh...
...parochial school enrollment is growing faster than public school enrollment, the issue will sharpen. About one out of every three U.S. babies is born to a Catholic family, and parochial schools now enroll as many as 60% of all schoolchildren in heavily Catholic communities. Examples: Chicago, 34%; Philadelphia, 39%; Pittsburgh...