Word: sox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West Virginia Wesleyan (where he had played end and earned his nickname), Washington & Jefferson, and West Virginia. In the famed Black Sox scandal 1919 World Series, he played a hard-hitting right field for the Cincinnati Reds...
...Bride's Day. With troops coming home, the war romances were beginning to break up, too. Many had bloomed in the tense atmosphere of ten-day leaves, between girls who had a crush on uniforms and careless youths hungry for any woman. Many a bobby-sox bride had married a soldier to get his allotment check, or his insurance...
Married. Shirley Temple, 17, cinema's dimpled goldilocks who grew up to bobby-sox roles (Kiss and Tell); and Sergeant John Agar, 24, tall, handsome A.A.F. physical instructor; in Los Angeles...
...song shot on Kate Smith's program. Since then, Tenor Smith has sometimes appeared in as many as 19 programs in one week. Among them were several variety shows for P & G, who reckoned that he would go over with housewives who tuned out the bobby-sox favorites...
Detroit's Tiger-hold on the American League was slipping. The Senators, with their four knuckle-ball pitching wonders, were up close. The White Sox, with something not apparent to the naked eye, were a third-place threat. And now Cleveland's amazing Indians jumped from seventh to fourth (winning 19 out of their last 28 games). The season had five weeks to go, and it looked like another dogfight to the finish...