Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...encyclopedic memory for baseball statistics and stories. He says that he did not get into show business until he was nine but he was a confirmed baseball fan at four. Though he made a living as a circus aerialist in his teens, Joe spent each summer playing semi-pro and minor-league baseball. In 1920 his friend Ed Barrow, manager of the Boston Red Sox, let Joe pinch-hit for Outfielder Harry Hooper in an exhibition game. In what may have been the happiest moment of his life, Joe hit a double...
Warner Bros, allowed him to equip and run a semi-pro team at Warner's expense. He once owned 25% of the Kansas City Blues, and considered buying the Brooklyn Dodgers in the '30s. His son, Joe L., is president of the New Orleans Pelicans of the Southern Association...
...World and the West, by Arnold Toynbee. A provocative interpretation of the history of the past six centuries, capped with a venture in semi-prophecy (TIME, April...
...high point total forced wrestling Captain Johnny Lee from the National A.A.U. Wrestling Tournament Saturday after he reached the semi-final round. There he lost in a last minute pin to Dick Hauser of the U.S. Air Force. Hauser went on to win his fourth National A.A.U. 125-pound championship, a title Lee held...
Second year students Richard J. Barrett and Monroe H. Freedman of Jaffe were the winning finalists, while Gladstone-Webster was represented by Edward Eyre and Richard J. Feinberg, Freedman and Barnett will argue in the semi-finals next fall as third year students...