Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Major explanation of the phenomenon of Robert William Feller is his father, William Andrew Feller of Van Meter, Iowa (pop. 410). Frustrated in his own ambition to be a professional baseballer, Father Feller decided to realize it vicariously in his son. When Robert Feller was four, he and his father played catch behind the barn on the 360-acre Feller wheat farm. At 9, Robert Feller could throw a baseball 275 ft. At 13 he could do better than 350 ft.* At 14, he could pitch so fast that his father had a hard time catching the ball and once...
...Green's Pepper. Lines were drawn then & there between widow and sister, never good friends, for a legal fight that promises to be historic. To his little office above a grocery store in small Port Henry (pop. 2,040) came a bigger estate case than Surrogate Harry E. Owen had ever thought of in his 20 years on the bench. As administrator he appointed Essex County's youthful District Attorney, bulky, bespectacled Thomas W. McDonald...
...bleachers in the world, that this year the nine has given us a disappointing start; but considering that the Mayor of Harvard might have thrown the first ball if he had not had a shoulder injury, that nothing is more ideal than sitting in your shirtsleeves and drinking pop, and that every day is ladies' day, undergraduates have no excuse for staying in Widener or playing bridge on days of baseball games...
When erstwhile "Public Rat No. 1'' Merle Vandenbush robbed the Northern Westchester Bank in Katonah, N. Y. (pop. 1.500) last February, he put three employes and two customers behind the open grill gate of the vault. Two wrecks later, shortly before the captured Vandenbush was sentenced to Sing Sing, another gang held up the bank, again put staff and customers in the vault. Had the robbers in either case closed the vault's steel door on their victims, they would have suffocated. Last week, forehanded President Edward Fielder had the vault of his well-rifled bank fitted...
...their keys as their ships go down, of actors who carry on the show as fire and panic threaten, of reporters whose dying gasps are in the service of their newspapers. Last week a new and complicated episode of newspaper dramatics was enacted in the little town of Alturas (pop. 2,338), up in the northeast corner county of California...