Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Right up to game time at the Polo Grounds last week, odds that the Cleveland Indians would take the World Series were 9 to 5. After a long, loud summer, second-guessing Managers Leo Durocher and Al Lopez, the nation's sportswriters, smart-money boys and Sunday-afternoon bleacher jockeys all had an easy explanation: Cleveland's pitching was too good. Even with their patchwork infield, the Indians had won 111 games. How could they lose a short series...
...admitted, the admissions office can afford to be highly selective. The result is that the co-eds average three points or more above their male rivals on the Cornell marking system. That invaluable source of comparison, the former Harvard section man, even ventured to say that they are as smart as Radcliffe girls...
...career of unswerving military precision (which began when he got into the Spanish-American War as a first sergeant): the fourth star of a full general. Ben Lear was a well-rounded enough soldier to ride on the U.S. horsemen's team in the 1912 Olympics, smart enough to serve as General Dwight Eisenhower's ETO Deputy Commander in 1945. But he will probably rack up his chief fame in military annals as the iron-willed disciplinarian ("No mistake should ever go uncorrected") who nearly marched the brogans off a high-spirited battalion of trainees in 1941 after...
...child is not enough, nor is two," according to Fisher. "Three would be all right, because then the children can outvote the parents." He and his wife Rosamond ("Roz"), a greying, matronly and whip-smart delegate to Evanston, have six-all of them boys.* So far they have given the Fishers four grandchildren-all girls. "We just decided to change sexes," explains the archbishop...
...mount might draw low weight in later handicaps, were part of honest horse racing long before Crevolin. But to horsemen it seemed like a breach of faith to talk about such matters in public. Crevolin's careless attempt to explain away a few defeats only strengthened the smart-money boys' suspicions that now and then the fix might be on, that every entry in a race is not always "well meant." At Del Mar, where Crevolin's horses are now running, stewards called Crevolin on the carpet, sent a report to the California Horse Racing Board...