Word: south
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Burt Shotton named Gil Hodges, a converted catcher, to start for the Dedgers; Casey Stengel chose Billy Johnson to go for the Yankees; while Billy South worth, Braves manager, announced that Ray Sanders, injured Boston first baseman, will be placed on the inactive list
McInnis had nothing but praise for his club's performance on the southern swing. "The Navy game was the best game I ever saw," he said. "Beautiful plays, beautiful plays. I thought they'd blow wide open down south." Actually, the Crimson made only four errors all in the infield--during the three-game junket...
...demand for the Mountain caught booksellers by surprise. Said Mrs. Georgia Lecken, manager of the book department in Rich's department store: "I would say that Protestants and Jews are buying it from us more than Catholics." But Georgia bookdealers do not see this as evidence of the South's yearning for the contemplative life. The booming sales are rather attributed to Protestant curiosity about behind-the-scenes Catholic activities-especially within a Trappist monastery...
Died. John Martin, 64, "Uncrowned King of South Africa" for three decades; after long illness; in Johannesburg. Martin managed the Argus newspaper chain (15 dailies, 13 weeklies), headed famed "Corner House," which controlled 16 gold mines and had a hand in a dozen more...
Farrell's Studs Lonigan trilogy, for all its elephantine gait and structure and its lack of narrative sense, had the freshness of its tough Chicago South Side material, observed with accuracy and set down with passion. Since then, Farrell has been dishing up the same old Irish stew without so much as adding a fresh onion. The Road Between shuttles between Chicago and the leftish intellectual world of New York in 1932. Aspiring Writer Bernard Carr, who works for an undertaker, has eloped with his employer's daughter and settled down in Manhattan to write. The Road...