Word: top
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glad they did it," William Y. H. Mason '51, spokesman for the group, said last night. "When we built our sidewalk we asked the City of Cambridge 'Can you top this?' They've topped it now, and that's what we wanted...
...Raschi put the Yanks on top with a dozen quick wins before the arrival of his nemesis, mid-summer heat. He finished up the season strong, winning his twenty-first Sunday over the Red Sox in the game that gave the Yanks the flag; he completed 21 games, lost...
...like he needs a hole in the head. The present occupant of Brooklyn's center pasture, Duke Snider, is a brilliant judge of fly balls, has a great throwing arm, hit 22 home runs in his rookle year with the Flock, and batted in the neighborhood of 291. To top it off, he is 22 years old. The whole Brooklyn organization is crawling with bright young flychasers, and the loss of Jethroe will not pain the Dodgers. Whether his addition to the Braves will rebound against the Brooks next season will be decided next season, of course...
Obsessively shy, Heineman has always wrapped his affairs in such obscurity that few but the world's top bankers have ever heard of him. When in Manhattan, he lives in a nine-room apartment in a quietly elegant midtown hotel. Born in North Carolina, Heineman went to Europe at 16 and stayed there almost half a century building electric tramways and power plants (including Ebro) in a dozen countries, with U.S., British, Belgian, Swiss and French capital...
...pains, Wald gets only $2,700 a week, about half of what he is worth to a top Hollywood studio at the going rate for production geniuses. Even on a living scale modest for Hollywood bigwigs (a ten-room house without swimming pool or tennis court), he moans that he can save little of it after agents' fees and taxes. Though tied to his handsomely austere wage by an optionless long-term contract that runs through 1951, Wald gets some comfort from recognition. He flirts occasionally with another studio to learn how much he is really worth, and does...