Word: sox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...introduces the grocer's son from Oshkosh, Wis. who is now chief spokesman for 3,274,867 Episcopalians in the U.S. and abroad. Said he: "If this were still an aristocratic church, it would never have elected me." The "P.B." also told reporters that he hoped the Red Sox (he lived near Boston for a time) would win the American League pennant: "In St. Louis, when the Cardinals won, they rang the bells in the church tower. There is a connection there, you know." For other pronouncements by Bishop Lichtenberger, see RELIGION, New Presiding Bishop...
BOSTON--Stanley (Bucky) Harris, who has devoted most of his 61 years to baseball, Thursday was named successor to Joe Cronin as general manager of the Boston Red Sox...
...three times been field manager at Washington, twice at Detroit and once each with the Red Sox, New York Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies...
Died. Tris Speaker, 70, baseball's great Grey Eagle, centerfielder for the Boston Red Sox (1907-15) and Cleveland Indians (1916-26); of a heart attack; at Lake Whitney, Texas. When alltime baseball teams are named, centerfield automatically belongs to Tris Speaker, not so much for his .345-caliber hitting as for his matchless fielding. Figuring that 98% of outfield hits fall in front of fielders, Speaker took advantage of his speed, played in so close that he almost breathed down the second baseman's neck. He watched the batter's feet, knew where the ball would...
Shoulder to shoulder under a purple umbrella, two girls left their porticoed high school one drizzly afternoon in Washington. D.C. They seemed identical -lumpy teen-agers with bandannas and sagging sox-except that one was a Negro, the other white. Last week, as other Southern cities rumbled angrily (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), such quiet scenes in the nation's capital spoke volumes about school integration-which Washington once viewed with frightened alarm...