Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even start well. Ten games into April, they had won only four. The man who prodded them out of the doldrums was Al Rosen. The American League Most Valuable Player of last year, Al Rosen, third baseman, made a quick switch to first, played like a practiced veteran, and opened a spot in the lineup for a flashy, hard-hitting rookie named Rudy Regalado. The Indians started after the lead. Now that Regalado is slumping at bat, Manager Al Lopez has another capable first baseman, ex-Oriole Vic Wertz, so he can safely bench Regalado and send Rosen back...
...their treasures intact to posterity. In 1926 the ninth Duke of Devonshire did what he could to preserve Chatsworth by turning the whole estate into a stock company and signing over most of its shares to his son. Twenty years later the son, by then tenth duke, a crusty veteran of Gallipoli and France, negotiated a contract by which his wife and the Duke of Buccleuch, as trustees, would take over ?1,850,000 worth of the estate, thus exempting that much from death duties. However, the duke made the arrangement too late, and in 1950 he died before...
...hours and was notable for raising Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca to stardom, for television pioneering in ballet and opera, for its parodies of U.S. and foreign films, and for pantomime sketches. Both Caesar and Coca will appear next year in their own separate TV shows, while veteran Producer-Director Max Liebman will take on the new job of overseeing NBC's big color TV spectacles planned for fall...
Gary was not thrown into show business on a sink-or-swim basis. His father's good friends and old employees, Bill Morrow and Murdo Mackenzie, are directing and writing the Gary Crosby Show; the announcer is veteran Ken Carpenter, a long time Bing sidekick, who remarked cheer fully that he was set for life "as long as I don't run out of Crosbys." Father Bing himself supplied a word of tactful advice ("Always be on time") and thoughtfully stayed away from the first recording session just in case he might make his son nervous...
...Milwaukee, Big Jim Wilson, the Braves' veteran (32) righthander who was almost counted out of baseball after being hit on the head by a line drive nine years ago, shut out Philadelphia, 2-0, in the first no-hit big-league ball game of the year...