Word: tinkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Joseph Bert Tinker, 68, last survivor of baseball's immortal double-play combination, "Tinker to Evers to Chance"; of a heart ailment; in Orlando, Fla. Fiery little Shortstop Tinker helped spark the Chicago Cubs to four National League pennants, two World Series victories (1907-08), left in 1913 to manage the Cincinnati Reds, later won and lost a fortune in Florida real estate...
...Tinker, sputtery holler guy of baseball's immortal Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance, confined to a wheel chair since his left leg was amputated 18 months ago, entered an Orlando, Fla. nursing home for "closer supervision of his diet...
Baccalaureate ushers will include Grace Anthony '49, Cynthia Baker '49, Mary Lou Buckley '49, Luretta Davis '49, Alice Gilbert '49, Barbara Heanue '49, Raquel Heller '49, Joan Projansky '49, Francena Thomas '49, Irene Tinker '49, and Marguerite Davis...
After the war, Ervin went back to his piano, and last year won the coveted first prize at the International Music Competition in Geneva. Now an earnest, black-eyed boy who still likes to tinker with machines "for amuse myself," he hopes to stay in the U.S. He is not nervous before U.S. audiences ("It is not a good play, if your hands are trembling," he says sensibly). But in spite of the critics' plaudits at his Manhattan debut, he thinks he has a long way to go to please them permanently: "I must work and work," says...
...mate on the close attack, Charley Gregg, showed his left handed shot to good advantage as he matched Estin with three tallies. HARVARD BLC Gregg 1.h. Weisheit Bezanson o.b. Hurley Abbot 1a Murnaghan Langer 2a Crolins Estin c Hulburd Withington 1d Dewey Snow 2d Thomas Graham pt Tinker Forsythe cp Moot Bernard g Schmidt...