Word: season
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation's worst polio season since Salk vaccine came into widespread use in 1955 shows no certain signs of letup. The figures for the week ending Sept. 19, according to the U.S. Public Health Service: 515 new cases, 326 of them paralytic, up from 510 cases (273 paralytic) the week before. Totals for the year to date: 5,520 cases, 3,400 of them paralytic, an increase of 83% from...
Return of the Pros. The Los Angeles Dodgers had moved in an aura of Hollywood make-believe all season long. Too many experiments were working out too well. Brought up from Spokane, a gutty little Negro shortstop named Maury Wills turned into a fielding flash. Pulled off the bench, boyish-faced Jim Gilliam, 30, filled the big hole at third. Picked up from St. Louis, craggy-browed Outfielder Moon, 29, lifted the team with his slashing play. The big pitcher turned out to be Roger Craig, 28, a lanky, laconic righthander, who had a horrendous 5-17 record last year...
...Three. Trouble was, San Francisco's Giants and Milwaukee's Braves were also seeing dollar signs. When the Dodgers blew a 12-2 game on the next-to-last day of the season, canny old (38) Warren Spahn curved the Braves into a first-place tie with a 3-2 victory over the Phils, to win the 267th game of his 15-season major-league career. The Giants' Sad Sam ("Toothpick") Jones. 33 (TIME, Sept. 21), had pitched so often that his battered right arm swung like a pendulum. But somehow Sam managed...
Injured since pre-season practice, Damis was impressive before the coaches yesterday, although he never entered the scoring columns. Halaby's substitute, Tom Boone, also impressed observers. His 46-yard pass to end Dave Ruschhaupt in the third quaterr was good for six points that put the junior varsity ahead for keeps...
Morale is always a problem for Munro at this stage of the season. The squad is never really "up" for contests with non-Ivy schools, but a defeat by one of its non-League opponents can send team spirit dropping. Amherst has always been a tough opponent, and the Lord Jeffs will be aiming for another upset today...