Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Downing Street (for her widowed father, the late Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald). now keeper of the Plow Inn, Speen, Bucks.; to Norman ("Tinker") Ridgley, 35, house painter, electrician's helper, ditchdigger, gardener, drummer in Speen's band, regular customer at the Plow, topflight darts player; in Leeds, England...
Except for a shift in the 135-pound class in which Page displaced Richter yesterday, ranks are unchanged. Navy, with raw and unimposing material, produces its only potential threat in the heavyweight class. Footballer Player will meet Glendinning in what will undoubtedly be his hardest match this year...
Unlike U. S. baseball, there are no highly-paid prima donnas in soccer. All players receive a standard weekly wage (?4 to ?8), are seldom singled out for acclaim by sportswriters. The team is the thing. Arsenal, the most famed team in England, draws the largest crowds, makes the most money and gets the biggest headlines. Its director and part owner, paunchy, jowled George Allison, brought to British soccer in 1933 the flair for publicity he learned during 22 years as a London journalist for William Randolph Hearst. Into his new million-dollar stadium, Director Allison, a onetime Yorkshire soccer...
Divorced. Josephine Murphy Culbertson, bridge-player extraordinary, from Ely Culbertson, bridge-player extraordinary (TIME, Dec. 13); in Reno...
There are two ways to become an Immortal: 1) election by a 75% vote of the members of the Baseball Writers Association, who have been given the task of choosing players whose careers ended some time between 1900 and the year of election; 2) selection by a committee of oldsters, who choose 19th Century heroes. In this year's ballot, Grover Cleveland Alexander was the only player who received enough votes to qualify. Of 262 votes he received...