Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Dr. McGraw concluded her daily observations of the twins and turned them back to their parents. Their father is Dennis Wood, 40, onetime baseball player, now a grounds keeper at the Yankee Stadium. Mrs. Wood, 33, was once a telephone operator. The Woods, with five older children, live in a four-room apartment. In their turbulent, normal society "conditioned" Johnny and "unconditioned" Jimmy last week started to demonstrate what stuff they are made...
...least harmless any worse than a page spread which infers that the use of Gafoozlers' shaving cream will lead to business success, or that a given mouthwash will end social disappointments, or that 20 mail-order music lessons will make a Philharmonic performer out of a saxophone player who couldn't carry a tune in a bushel basket...
When William the Conqueror was fighting the Battle of Hastings (1066) bearded bards in Wales were taking crwth (pronounced crowd) in hand, sawing a short bow over its strings, singing verses. When Henry VIII was dangling Anne Boleyn on his knees, he often called for his favorite virginal player, listened to thin tinkling music from a small piano-like keyboard. The "Three Musicians'' in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1594) regaled Elizabethans with harsh, screechy fiddling on rebecs. Milton and Pepys praised the pennywhistle notes of the fipple. Persians were plucking lutes before Attila ravaged Gaul. Crusaders brought dulcimers back...
...consecutive scoreless innings two weeks after he pitched an 18-inning game against St. Louis which the Giants won1-to-0, has been recognized as the National League's No. 1 pitcher for the past three seasons. Last year he was voted the League's most valuable player. Last week he got 86,048 votes to 62,201 for his nearest rival, Dizzy Dean. But even Hubbell's margin of popularity was surpassed by that of Vernon ("Lefty") Gomez of the New York Yankees. Gomez' amazing record this season is 13 games won, 3 lost...
Forty-five years ago three good Democratic wards in East Boston were bossed by a saloon-keeping politician named Patrick J. Kennedy. To "P. J." was born a son, Joseph, who went to Harvard and became a baseball player. After graduation in 1912, Joe turned down a job in the big leagues to try his hand in business. He and a friend bought a sightseeing bus for $1,200. The friend drove while Joe barked. They not only paid for their investment, but in the course of three seasons Joe cleared about $5,000. On the strength of that...