Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held on Friday. At a performance open to the public, Walter Lippmann '10 will speak, Edward K. Rand '94, Pope Professor of Latin, will deliver a poem, a prayer will be given by the Reverend Henry B. Washburn '91, and the double quartette of the Glee Club will sing. Later in the day a private meeting of the Chapter will be held to which the public will not be admitted...
...five years in prison. He was now eager to make a fresh start. To that end therefore, he accepted the offer of a $200-per-month job with the Albany Senators, International League baseball team, of which famed Johnny Evers* is general manager. But even before Alabama Pitts left Sing Sing, President William G. Bramham of the National Association of Minor Professional Baseball Leagues telegraphed Manager Evers that he forbade the deal "for the good of professional baseball." Said Warden Lawes: "It is difficult to understand Judge Bramham's ruling. If a man is able to do any legitimate...
...Manhattan police arrested four young men for stealing $59 from an Amsterdam Avenue grocery store. Three of them received short jail terms The fourth, one Edwin Collins Pitts of Opelika, Ala., had carried a gun. For his first robbery he was sentenced to from eight to 16 years in Sing Sing. Convict Pitts, as "Alabama" Pitts, became a star player on the prison's baseball and football teams. News stories about Sing Sing's games against local teams of semi" professionals, firemen and police made him a U. S. sports celebrity. Last week his term shortened by behavior...
...Sing Sing, Ex-Convict Pitts emerged from prison at 8 o'clock, kissed his mother, who said over the radio she hoped he would get "a fair chance," breakfasted with Warden Lawes and a group of reporters. In Syracuse, where he joined the Albany Senators pending an executive committee hearing to decide whether he could play, a crowd of 300 met Baseballer Pitts at the station. He reached his hotel with a motorcycle police escort. Four days later the executive committee upheld Judge Bramham's ruling. Albany executives planned to refer the case to baseball's Commissioner...
...Manhattan theatre season just ending produced an unparalleled number of social justice dramas, including: Odets' Awake and Sing!, Elmer Rice's Judgment Day and Between Two Worlds, the Theatre Guild's Rain From Heaven, the Theatre Union's Stevedore, Sailors of Cattaro, Black...