Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week it looked to Parisians as if the Louvre staff needed a little augmentation in time of peace as well. About ten minutes of four one afternoon the guard who patrols the new French room on the second floor found himself staring at a blank space on the wall. When he had passed by 20 minutes before it had been occupied by Antoine Watteau's L'lndifférent, a tiny (10¼ inches by 7⅞ inches) painting of a carefree youth in a rose colored cape and blue doublet...
...eyed son of a San Francisco boiler worker went on to erase the stigma of that strikeout. The craftiest, quickest-thinking ball player in the major leagues, Second Baseman Lazzeri became the mastermind of the Yankee infield, helped them win six pennants and five World Series, became, next to Babe Ruth, the most popular player ever to wear a Yankee uniform. Thousands of New York's Italians, who up to that time had been content with boxing and boccie, began to stream into Yankee Stadium. "Poosh 'em up, Tony!" thereafter was the battle cry of the bleachers...
Last year, after twelve years as Yankee second baseman, Tony Lazzeri at 33 started his twilight trail. Released from the Yankees, he served as braintruster for the Chicago Cubs, quit the Cubs to join the Dodgers, quit the Dodgers to join the Giants-all within 14 months. Last week, on the same day that old Pete Alexander, along with ten other living Immortals, was installed in Baseball's Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, Tony Lazzeri quit major-league ballplaying, signed up as manager of the minor-league Toronto Maple Leafs...
...University of California's varsity oarsmen: the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta, No. 1 U. S. crew race; rowing the four miles in 18 min., 12.6 sec., a new course record; on the choppy Hudson River, off Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Second-place Washington, finishing 1.5 sec. behind, also broke the old record...
Marriage Disclosed. Eleanor ("Cooky") Young, 21, onetime (1936) No. 1 Manhattan debutante; and Socialite Robert Ogden ("Bunny") Bacon Jr., 27; her first, his second; in Newport...