Word: poned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cardinals' Wilmer ("Vinegar Bend") Mizell, 20, tagged by sportwriters as "the lefthanded Dizzy Dean." In a pure corn-pone drawl, Vinegar explains his nickname: "Vinegar Bend, Mississippi [pop. about 75] is where ah gets mah mail.'' Signed as a barefoot prospect in nearby Leakesville, Miss. (pop. around 1,000) two years ago, Vinegar bounced up the Cardinal chain to Winston-Salem last year, where he won 17 games, struck out 227 batters in 207 innings. Cardinal Manager Marty Marion exults over his huge (6 ft. 3 in., 200 lbs.) pitcher: "He has the livest fast ball...
...season at Yale, the situation was quite different. The Elis had won five of their first seven games, the best season in Hickman's regime so far. Though Hickman (Tennessee '32) was no Old Blue, Yale liked him fine. The Yale Athletic Department also liked the corn-pone drawl in which Hickman had announced his coaching aim at New Haven: to win just enough games "to keep the alumni sullen but not mutinous." Though Hickman's five-year contract still had two years to run, Yale last week tore it up and handed...
Guns & Corn Pone...
GREAT STORY ON MY SURE SHOT SISTER-IN-LAW BETTY HUTTON . . . HOWEVER, I HAVE INSTRUCTED MY SECONDS TO CALL ON TIME'S EDITORS . . USE OF THE NINE-YEAR-OLD CORN PONE PICTURE OF SISTER MARION, WHO IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, WAS A MISTAKE THAT CAN ONLY BE ERASED ON THE FIELD OF HONOR...
Dizzy's salary back in 1933, when he won 20 games for the Cardinals, was $3,000. For his corn-pone idiom and homespun description of doings at the Yankee Stadium this summer he will get $30,000. "Which is more than I ever made pitchin' baseballs," he says thoughtfully...