Word: williamsport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lycoming College, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Clarence R. Athearn, professor of Philosophy and Social Ethics, was dismissed in May, 1948. Athearn had been county chairman of the Progressive Party until March of that year...
Detroit's Pinky Higgins, who were putting in time at Great Lakes, too. When Johnny got out of the Navy in 1946, he signed a contract with the Tigers (with a $30,000 bonus attached), socked the money away in war bonds, and reported to Williamsport, Pa. the following spring to start his formal education in the game...
Connie Mack has missed very few bets in his 44 years with the Philadelphia Athletics. But he gave up too soon on Al Benton. Ten years ago he shunted the big, happy-go-lucky pitcher off to the minors. In exile, 6-ft.-4 Al worked for Williamsport, Albany, Chattanooga, Memphis, Toledo. Gradually, he cured a sore arm and came up again, this time with the Detroit Tigers. As their grade-A relief pitcher, he averaged over 150 innings a season, and saved many a game, from 1939 through...
Died. Annie Knight Gregory, 100, "last true Daughter of the American Revolution" (her father was one of George Washington's drummer boys at Valley Forge); in Williamsport...
...Williamsport, Pa. Grit also will go tabloid at year's end. A flamboyant, copiously illustrated country weekly that goes to some 580,000 readers in & near 16,000 small U.S. towns, Grit has been informing and entertaining rural America for 61 years. Its formula: a summary of the week's news, plenty of almanackish data, homemaking hints, news and features about Hollywood, radio and sports...