Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handsome, outspoken wife, Maryland McCormick, has accurately read the signs, as have top Trib executives. From staff and distaff side, the colonel has been gently urged to make changes in the paper. Says Maryland McCormick: "The odds seem to be against the extreme right wing. It's very sad, but true, and why not face...
...Style of His Own. The Giants' sad showing in Willie's absence, and their winning performance when he got back, established him as a big-leaguer with a promising future. "A natural-born ballplayer," said Leo Durocher. In the case of Mays, Durocher was close to the literal truth. Willie's father, Willie Sr., was called "Kitty Cat" for his lithe grace as outfielder and lead-off hitter for the Black Barons of the Negro National League, until he quit the game in 1948 (at the age of 37). Willie was only 14 months old when Willie...
...Cincinnati, the visiting Philadelphia Phils fired Manager Steve O'Neill and called up Terry Moore (42). A gentleman ballplayer who remembered his manners through 11 seasons as a centerfielder with the terrible-tempered Cardinals of the old Gas House Gang, Moore inherits a fifth-place club, drifting a sad 15½ games back...
...lean, sad-eyed son of a North Carolina Baptist preacher, Paul Crouch drifted away from the South at 21. He joined the U.S. Army, preached Communism to his buddies at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, was court-martialed and sent to Alcatraz. After serving three years there, he was dressed out in 1928 and turned to full-time work for Communism. In 1942 he broke with the party...
...times. It is so bad that a mere wooden bowl becomes, in this exhibition, a piece of sculpture, while entanglements of wires are considered statues." But what riled the Vatican most were the few paintings dealing with sacred subjects, one of which showed Christ as a skeleton. "It is sad," the article concluded, "that in Catholic Venice, full of Christian beauty, works by presumably Christian artists would turn out to be an outrage to the dignity of Christian life...