Word: w
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ELDEN W. SCANLAND Wichita Falls...
...unbeknown to him or his parents, because one of his aunts "had a peculiar penchant for naming babies Philip." As confusion piled on top of contradiction, Judge Medina clasped both hands over his head in bewilderment. Medina's patience was beginning to grow thin: when Defense Attorney George W. Crockett Jr. got into the wrangling, he was also cited for contempt...
...inning against the Boston Braves-for 31 scoreless innings in all-before he let a run cross the plate. At week's end, the New York Giants managed to shell him out of the box, but it was the first time in his last seven starts. His record: w. 15, l. 6. Although everybody has tremendous respect for his curve and control, the secret of Newcombe's success is summed up simply in three words: he throws hard...
...Murray's Blockouts (produced by David W. Siegel) reached Broadway last week after playing for seven years in Hollywood. A freak success which was seldom the same show for two weeks running (TIME, Feb. 12, 1945), Blackouts grossed $5,000,000 from a 10,500. It reached Broadway in a slack season when no other new show was scheduled to open for weeks to come...
...time smoke began to boil out of the rocket's top, nearly everyone had retreated to the blockhouse. "It is now X minus 20 minutes," warned the operations officer, Lieut. Commander W. Patrick Murphy, over the loudspeaker. "Silence in the blockhouse. No smoking...