Word: quits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boys, he raised $1.25 to buy a Premo 4-by-5 camera from a pawnshop. When it came his turn to use it, he took a picture of a square-rigger moored off Manhattan's South Street. The shot won $5 in a photo contest, and when Rosy quit day school a year later to help support his family, he turned naturally to photography. He became a hustling freelancer who got a beat on the Baltimore fire of 1904 by driving a farmer's wagon through police lines. The next year he was pool photographer at Teddy Roosevelt...
...second division for the first time in twelve years and finished third, just two games behind the pennant-winning Dodgers. Tebbetts was not satis- fied, traded in search of pennant-class pitching. But the Redlegs skidded to last place this season. Birdie, who once said, "A manager should never quit," decided last week to resign, became the fourth major-league manager to bow out this year (the others: Detroit's Jack Tighe, Cleveland's Bobby Bragan, Philadelphia's Mayo Smith). Best bet to succeed him: fiery, onetime Big-League Infielder (Cubs, Dodgers, Braves, Giants, Cardinals) and Manager...
...stuttered badly as a boy, but cured himself by cramming buttons in his mouth and reading aloud. At 14 he spent six months in bed recovering from tuberculosis. He quit high school at 16. He was already working as an office boy and part-time announcer at a station in Jackson (WIBM) for $3 a week. Oldtimers still remember his style. "This is Jack Buh-Buh-Buh-Boo Paar, your announcer," he would croon, or "This is your young and popular announcer, Bing Paar." He kept a discarded microphone in the attic at home. It was hooked up to nothing...
...York, where he moved five years ago, Jack got a chance to go on talking on a shortlived CBS radio show called Bank on the Stars. Then he moved into TV as a replacement for Arthur Godfrey, finally replaced Walter Cronkite on the Morning Show, which he quit after eleven months ("Too much pressure for me to help soften up sponsors"). After that, guest appearances with Ed Sullivan kept him going until NBC signed him up to take over the Tonight show...
...show, wanted more of a team operation. Last summer Murchison and his backers brought in Major General David H. Baker as president and chief executive officer (TIME, Aug. 5), moved Slim Carmichael up to board chairman. With little real authority remaining, Airman Carmichael finally quit, saying only that he left "for personal reasons." Probable choice to become Capital's next chairman: Lawyer Murchison...