Word: starting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Young will start at short, although Charlie Cabot is slated to see a lot of action. Ben Akillian, a center fielder with a strong arm, will follow Young to bat. Starting pitcher Jack Donelan, one of the most dependable hitters on the squad, will bat cleanup...
...lineup continues with right fielder Bob Thompson, third base Bill Hickey, and Ralph Robinson, left fielder. Tim Wise or Al Switzer--will start at first, depending on the condition of Wise's injured hand. Catcher Bill Goodman completes the batting order...
Loyal at first only to his mother and his crippled brother (Arthur Kennedy), Midge gets his start in a fight-club preliminary. With a natural yen for money and bloodletting, he soon gets a professional manager (Paul Stewart) and starts dropping other middleweights like bulls in a stockyard. He also becomes adept at dropping his friends, usually with a kick in the teeth. In one way or another, he gets rid of his bride (whom he married at the point of a gun), his manager, a couple of girl friends, and even his brother...
...tempest enough. Jimmy admitted that as mayor he had accepted a quarter of a million dollars in gifts from a friend. Chief Investigator Judge Samuel Seabury charged that Jimmy had let corruption rot his administration. (At the start of the investigations, Jimmy was caught in a police raid on a gambling casino, escaped arrest by pulling on a waiter's apron and sitting down to a plate of beans in the kitchen.) In September 1932, with Walker's sudden resignation, hearings on the charges came...
...over Army might well be termed an upset, for the Crimson was by far the greener team. Wet outdoor, courts forced play onto the hockey rink's cement courts, and after a bad start the Crimson rallied to win most of the late sets...