Word: weaver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reprieve. In Elmira Heights, N.Y., convicted of third-degree assault, Steve Weaver got a one-day parole on his 30-day jail sentence so that he could report for his weekly unemployment check...
...Eddie Dyer sharply: "If you've got to sing, wait until I get off this bus. I don't see anything to sing about." Things were different after they had taken a game from Cincinnati and learned that Brooklyn had blown one to Boston. They gave Doc Weaver, the club trainer, a rousing cheer for being the last man to board the bus. "Know what will stop falling hair?" someone asked. "No, what?" said Doc, and the whole bus howled when he got the answer: "The floor." Everything seemed funny...
...sleep of hotel guests. Eddie Dyer's Cardinals have no band, but they like music. A phonograph continually grinds out cowboy dirges, swing and sometimes bebop in the clubhouse when they are in St. Louis. It is the successor of an old hand-winding Gramophone that Doc Weaver brought into the clubhouse 22 years ago. The music box helped them win the 1942 pennant, with Pass the Biscuits, Mirandy the theme song. In 1946, in another hot pennant race, Doc Weaver scoured record shops until he found another record of Mirandy-and the Cardinals kept it spinning while they...
...FOOTNOTE*-Another of Doc Weaver's maneuvers for luck has been familiar to Cardinals over a span of 22 years. It is the "double whammy," a ceremonial manipulation of the hands which is supposed to bring misfortune to opposing teams...
Last week, professional polio fighters decided that the scare campaign had gone too far. Dr. Harry M. Weaver, research director of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, declared that false rumors about polio can do more harm than the disease itself. Dr. Weaver stressed the positive gains made in polio research (on which the Foundation has spent almost $11 million, will spend $2,000,000 this year). In fact, these boil down to the knowledge that there are at least three types of polio virus (and possibly several strains of each type), and that the virus is usually transmitted...