Word: springs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whenever the ballplayers themselves start gabbing about a youngster," said the Yankees' Bill Dickey, "it's a sign he's going to be around a while." Bill Dickey, like a lot of other baseball pros this spring, was talking of Detroit's 22-year-old John Thomas Groth...
...brawny six-footer with massive forearms, Groth seemed equally able to run, hit and throw, and he took a vicious right-handed cut at the ball in a style that reminded some sportwriters of "Ducky" Medwick in his heyday with the St. Louis Cardinals. Before the spring training even began, the Detroit Tigers had announced flatly that Johnny Groth would play center field for them this year. "I took one look at him," explained Manager Robert Rolfe, "and decided instantly." Added "Red" Rolfe: "He may develop into a hell of a ballplayer...
...Pinky Higgins, who were putting in time at Great Lakes, too. When Johnny got out of the Navy in 1946, he signed a contract with the Tigers (with a $30,000 bonus attached), socked the money away in war bonds, and reported to Williamsport, Pa. the following spring to start his formal education in the game...
Beethoven: Sonata in F Major, Opus 24 (Emanuel Bay, piano; Jascha Heifetz, violin; Victor, 4 sides). Playing cleanly, Heifetz makes the delightful "Spring" sonata blossom. Recording: good...
...cracks that a man is "allergic to his wife," or "allergic to his job" may be on sound scientific ground, says Swartz. Unhappiness at home or office can cause allergic reaction that results, for instance, in asthma. Swartz tells of a garment manufacturer whose asthma became almost unbearable every spring, and then improved in the fall. It was not a case of pollen sensitivity, as the victim thought, but worry over his business sense. In March he made up his samples and started to worry; by September, he knew that his judgment about them had been all right...