Word: thomaston
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the Phillies beat out 12 other big-league clubs in a scramble to sign up another whiz kid. In Thomaston, Ga., where 19-year-old strike-out artist Hugh Radcliffe (TIME, May 10) was pitching his last high-school game, a Philadelphia scout shelled out $40,000 to persuade Radcliffe to become a Philly...
Radcliffe, who pitches for the Robert E. Lee Institute in Thomaston, Ga., has a very fast ball, a sharp curve, and an unruffled disposition. He is also cleanup man in the batting order, and is currently hitting...
Ever since she was "in the primer," honey-blonde Mattie Lou Pollard, 14, has gone to the same one-room schoolhouse near Thomaston, Ga. Her teacher at Sunnyside School had work on her hands, taking care of 34 boys & girls, eight grades and all subjects. But somehow the teacher, Mrs. George Phillips, had time to do right by Mattie Lou. Last week at the National Press Club in Washington, with mother and teacher looking on, Mattie Lou won the Scripps-Howard 20th National Spelling Bee, a $500 prize and a trip to New York. Said pleased-as-punch Schoolmarm Phillips...
...Thomaston, Me., 58-year-old Negro Joseph J. Jackson flashed a dazzling Christmas morning smile for photographers. After serving 30 years for murder, he had just been pardoned...
...wake of Georgia's primary, 60-year-old Editor J. B. Hardy sat down and penned a bitter editorial for his Thomaston Times...