Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flatbush Cincinnatus, was called from his Florida farm last spring by Boss Branch Rickey to take charge of the Dodgers, after Manager Leo Durocher was suspended for a year (TIME, April 21). Shotton, semi-retired after a long career as outfielder, coach, manager and Brooklyn scout, scarcely knew his players' first names. At first he leaned heavily for advice on Stanky and Pitcher Hugh Casey, but now he runs the team by himself. Only once-after the Dodgers had lost four straight to the Cards in June-has Boss Rickey called Shotton into a council of war. Aloof...
Married. Herman Shumlin, 48, bald, bespectacled, parlor-pink Broadway producer (Watch on the Rhine, The Male Animal); and Carmen England, 33, onetime screen bit player; he for the second time, she for the third; in Santa Monica...
Jukebox Genius. At a Manhattan coin-machine show, exhibitors proudly demonstrated a mechanical "Information Please," patterned after a Navy wartime training device. For a nickel, the machine propounds five questions on a printed screen from a selection of 8,000, gives the player a choice of answers to each question. The player selects one by punching a button and is graded by the machine...
...ringer for Ichabod Crane. From a slouchy, 6 ft. 5 in. frame, Ewell Blackwell's arms dangled almost to his knees. When he wound up and pitched sidearm, he was so awkward that another player remarked: "He looks like he's falling out of a tree." Last week the awkward one, up to the majors for his second year (after three seasons in the Army), shuffled out to the mound in Cincinnati to face the league-leading Boston Braves in his first night game of the season...
Stockholm's Dagens Nyheter labeled him an "apostle of hypocrisy," and said that Brundage came from a land where a "top tennis player doesn't go to a tournament for less than $500 to $800 . . . and their university sports are the world's biggest amateur fraud." Idrottsbladet got in a lick: "It took Our Lord 800,000,000 years to create the world of today. How long a time will it take Mr. Brundage to learn to understand it?" (Sweden was mad because its track heroes-Gunder Hägg and Arne Andersson-had been barred from...