Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...begs in the Dominican Republic. First offense draws six months on the work farm, the second offense a couple of years, the third, life imprisonment. "Either they work," said my guide, "or they don't eat." Nor is there much unofficial crime, petty thievery and such. What's the penalty? "The penalty, sir, is that you don't do it again...
Speaking at all-white Florida State University, Author Philip (Generation of Vipers) Wylie, 57, typically detoured from his academic chore (presenting two Wylie awards to future librarians), wished for a darker Dixie-to-come: "I hope that in a third of a century not only will we be integrated and almost all racism will be a historic fact we read about in old books, but I hope we'll be a lot further along toward all becoming tea-colored...
Durable (fifty-fivish) Cinemactor Gary (An Affair to Remember) Grant, now separated from third wife Betsy, was living it up at the grand finale of the Cannes Film Festival. He had discovered a new diversion: Cinemactress Kim (Picnic...
Detroit's Frank Lary threw a high, hard one, sent Washington's Harmon Killebrew sprawling in the dirt. Husky (6 ft., 195 Ibs.) Third Baseman Killebrew was unruffled. He rose, socked the next pitch far into the leftfield bleachers to tie the score. Next time up, he blasted a long three-run homer to bring the Senators a 7-4 victory...
...with Eddie Yost apparently permanently installed at third base, Killebrew found himself playing mostly in the minors. His fielding was sub par, and he struck out too often by going after bad pitches. In sporadic appearances with the Senators, he got into only 113 games in five years, hit a lowly .224. This season Yost was gone (in a trade with Detroit), and Manager Cookie Lavagetto tried nine other candidates before settling on Killebrew. But once the season began, Killebrew took dead aim on the fences, in the space of twelve days hit two homers in each of four games...