Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wake. After 113 days of squatting on a platform above his confectionery store "until the Indians got back in first place," Exhibitionist Charley Lupica (TIME, Aug. 19) was invited down last week by Bill Veeck, exhibitionist president of the Cleveland baseball club. In the mathematics of the 1949 pennant race, the Indians, World Series winners a year ago, were dead. To mourn the sad occasion, Veeck, crowned with a silk hat but still without a tie (he never wears one), drove a horse-drawn hearse into Municipal Stadium with all the Indians trailing along as pallbearers and mourners. They buried...
...newspaper offices throughout the South last week, editors and publishers were reading a new, blunt-spoken pamphlet on one of their major ethical problems. Its title: Race in the News. Its thesis: many Southern editors still pander to anti-Negro prejudice, thereby ignore their responsibility for better newspapers and better race relations...
Jaakko will be able to tell more about his squad after the University Handicaps tomorrow. These serve as time trials and determine the personnel who are likely to compete in the opening race against Tufts a week from tomorrow...
Freshmen get their first hot tips on the extra-curricular rat race at 7:15 p.m. tonight in a New Lecture Hall meeting...
...tight pennant race will have to come out of its knot this afternoon when the two teams meet in New York at 2 p.m. at Yankee Stadium. Maury McDermott and Tommy Byrne are the probable pitchers...