Word: reno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manager would tolerate a gin bottle in dugout or bullpen. So what explained the sudden spurt of skill of Detroit Third Baseman Reno Bertoia? For two full seasons, and even this spring, Bonus Baby Bertoia sometimes performed like a crossfoot clown in the field and was too tense at bat to hit his hat size. Still, as the season started, Bertoia was given the nod over Jim Finigan to play third. He has yet to make an error, and at week's end he was second in the American League in batting with a hefty .375 (behind Boston...
...Sociologist Allvar Jacobson, in an open letter to the chairman of the Board of Regents, charged Stout with "inhuman and capricious treatment." Finally, in 1956, 300 students demonstrated in downtown Reno, hung their president in effigy, waved placards reading "Out with Stout." With no hearing at all, the administration expelled six student demonstrators only to have to back down in the face of public protest...
Divorced. Anthony Franciosa, 28, mercurial Broadway actor (A Hatful of Rain) and boyfriend of Shelley Winters, 32, tough blonde actress of screen (A Place in the Sun) and stage (A Hatful of Rain); by Beatrice Bakalyar Papaleo, after nearly five years of marriage, no children; in Reno...
Spring Inventory. In El Reno, Okla., the Federal Reformatory put up for sale 1,500 Ibs. of "scrap and salvage, consisting of hacksaw blades, files and broken tools...
Married. Erskine Caldwell, 53, novelist of Georgia's poor whites (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre), and Virginia Moffett Fletcher, 37; he for the fourth time (his second: Photographer Margaret Bourke-White), she for the second; in Reno...