Word: prescriptioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prescription for Peace
Ten in a Row. Sympathy was the right prescription for Big Bill. He began pitching brilliantly. He won the last six games he pitched for the Braves last year, and the first four this year. When Giant fans boo him now, he feels like thumbing his nose, but pretends dignified...
The Boston Public Latin School's Joseph Lawrence Powers, 69, slight, billiard-playing headmaster of the oldest-and possibly the best-U.S. public school (founded 1635). A strict disciplinarian (in his best this-hurts-me-worse tone, he used to ask erring pupils, "Why didn't you...
Owlish Ik Shuman, who had made his mark as a crack editor on the New Yorker and Holiday, signed on for three years as publisher. His prescription: raise the rates to contributors, get better cartoons, "try for a civilized point of view."
Said Feller last week: "I won the first two games without having my best stuff. That may be a good omen." But the Indians have only one other first-rate pitcher, eager Bob ("Squeeze") Lemon. Boudreau's pitching prescription for the season: "Feller and Lemon, two days of rain...