Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, at the suggestion of Braves President Lou Perini, 56-year-old Billy Southworth, who still has three years to go on a five-year contract (at $50,000 a season), took a leave of absence for the rest of the season. Said the owners: they wanted "a healthy Bill Southworth managing the Braves in the spring." Coach Johnny Cooney took over the club for the rest of 1949. Billy Southworth flew home to Sunbury, Ohio for a long rest...
...Chester A. Arthur. He became a big-league manager (for the Pittsburgh Pirates) four years before Admiral Dewey sank the Spanish fleet at Manila. In his 49 years in Philadelphia he won nine pennants (the last in 1931) and five World Series, trained a roster of greats whose names still make old fans' eyes gleam-Rube Waddell, Chief Bender, Frank ("Home Run") Baker, Eddie Collins, Lefty Grove, Mickey Cochrane, Jimmy Foxx, Al Simmons...
...Crump. Raising rumpuses is nothing new for Edward Towner Leech. At 57, greying, mild-mannered Ed Leech has been a Scripps-Howard editor in Memphis, Birmingham, Denver and Pittsburgh for 31 years, longer than anybody else in the chain. He started out as an $8-a-week cub, would still rather hunch over a typewriter than an editor's desk, turns out a weekly syndicated column for Scripps-Howard...
Such dead-earnest studies as Joel Reeves's shadowy Still Life in Green and Bruno Sepka's oil of a snowed-in tenement district which he called Man's Houses, raised the exhibition's level of technical competence but did nothing to lighten the atmosphere. Minneapolis' Walker Art Center sent six paintings that demonstrated how diversely students in a progressive art school will advance. They ranged from Reginald Anderson's Figures, a spiky, thin-air abstraction, to Roland Thompson's carefully realistic Culvert. William Chaiken's patchwork Tryst at the Fountain...
Church membership in the U.S., steadily growing since the latter half of the 19th Century, is still on the rise. This week the nondenominational Christian Herald, most authoritative voice on current U.S. Protestant church membership, released its figures for 1948* and gave churchmen statistical proof of the fact...