Word: simpson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scooting around the first-base bag like a hopped-up jackrabbit one night last week, Cleveland's Rookie Outfielder Harry Simpson handled the new position without an error and cracked out two hits in three times at bat as the Indians beat the Boston Red Sox, 7-1. Rookie Simpson, substituting for injured Luke Easter, turned in a bang-up performance in his first-base debut. But the occasion was noteworthy for another reason too. It was the first time in the major leagues that one Negro had substituted in the starting line-up for another...
Indians: First Baseman Easter, now hitting a husky .423; Outfielder Larry Doby, whose .326 led all Cleveland hitters last season, made him fourth ranking batter in the league; Rookie Simpson, who last year led the Pacific Coast League in runs batted in (156), in total bases (403), and rapped out 33 homers for the San Diego Padres...
There were two faculty members, Charles R. Simpson, teaching fellow in Law, and Lyon Southworth, manager of the Chemical Laboratories. Robert L. Wolff '36, associate professor of History, who is in Washington, was represented by his secretary, Janet Johnson...
...awards indicated the stylistic range of the show, which was held together by what one Atlantan called "an almost frightening racial strength and feeling." Brooklyn's Merton Simpson won the top landscape prize with a near-abstraction called Landscape Symphony. Top money-winner ($300) was String Dance, a relatively academic study by Walter A. Simon, teacher at Virginia State College...
...Ramparts We Watch" will be the theme of the Association program which will include speeches by Julius S. Bixler, president of Colby College; Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology; Alfred D. Simpson, professor of Education; and William G. Perry, Director of the Bureau of Study Counsel...