Word: whalen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, a jovial 14-car motorcade, containing all but the U.S. and Egyptian delegates, and spearheaded by New York's handwringing, homburg-hatted Grover Whalen, set out for Long Island to seek another temporary home...
...action starring Bucek. After lacing a clean single to left, he pilfered second and came around home after an infield out and a fielder's choice. The Crusaders went ahead again in the bottom half of the same frame. Ray Borowicz got on when he forced John Whalen at second. He then stole second and Devlin followed with a bingle into center; Borowicz romped home when Carlton fumbled the ball...
...made his fame global. He was the toast of feature writers, the darling of lepidopterists. He was photographed embracing Mayor LaGuardia's finger, strolling up a model's leg. LIFE ran him on its cover, with the simple caption Curley. Bill Robinson introduced the Curley Capers. Grover Whalen bid for his services as a morris dancer at the New York World's Fair...
...Drive. Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague kept an eye on the horses at Hialeah. Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly popped in & out again. Ex-Ambassadors Joe Davies and Joe Kennedy were at their Palm Beach houses, as was ex-Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles. Grover Whalen was down for a couple of weeks. President Alfonso López of Colombia suddenly left for home when he heard that the Colombian political situation needed his attention. But Otto of Austria stayed...
...lucky seventh saw a scoring jamboree with each club contributing two tallies to the festivities. BU drew blood in their half on a double, a sacrifice, and an overthrow by Fitzgibbons, Whalen scoring. As if that wasn't enough, the Boston boys pulled a tricky double steal after Glennon had drawn a pass from Jack Farley. Dillon scored on that to knot up the game...