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Trippingly on the Tongue. In London, arbitrating a knotty pronunciation dispute over the town of Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire, Wales, His Majesty's Court of Appeal ruled against "Fellee," "Poo-Hellee," and "Poosh-Hellee," finally compromised on "Pwellee...
Died. Tony ("Poosh'em Up") Lazzeri, 41, onetime hard-hitting, pantherlike second baseman and infield sparkplug of the New York Yankees (1925-37), who starred with Titans Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig as a member of the famed "Murderers' Row"; after a fall apparently due to a heart attack; in Millbrae, Calif...
...Little Miss Bluebeard, Naughty Cinderella), was the new chanteuse of Manhattan's La Vie Parisienne nightclub. The fiftyish, Corsica-born brunette sang favorites new & old (old favorites: If You Could Care for Me, Let's Do It, Do it Again), described her hairdo as the American Push-"Poosh all my hair on a other side...
...helped them win six pennants and five World Series, became, next to Babe Ruth, the most popular player ever to wear a Yankee uniform. Thousands of New York's Italians, who up to that time had been content with boxing and boccie, began to stream into Yankee Stadium. "Poosh 'em up, Tony!" thereafter was the battle cry of the bleachers. In the World Series of 1936, on the tenth anniversary of his famed strikeout, "Poosh'em up Tony" reached the climax of his career when he hit a home run with the bases loaded-a feat that...
...Redwood City, Calif., where he is wintering, Infielder Tony ("Poosh 'em up") Lazzeri of the New York Yankees filed suit for divorce, declared his wife Maye "no longer loved him," few hours later called the suit "all a big mistake...
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