Word: wilson
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...reached his high moment, playing for Philadelphia at the end of his career, when Connie Mack summoned him from the boneyard to be a surprise starter in the first game of the 1929 World Series and he struck out 13 Chicago Cubs (including Rogers Hornsby, Hack Wilson) to set a series record that lasted for nearly a quarter of a century-until Brooklyn's Carl Erskine mowed down 14 Yankees in the 1953 series; of cerebral meningitis; in Philadelphia...
...MIDDLE AGE OF MRS. ELIOT (439 pp.)-Angus Wilson-Viking...
More than half a century ago Rudyard Kipling advised the world to walk wide of the Widow at Windsor (for '"alf o' creation she owns"). Now British Satirist Angus Wilson offers a look at the other side of the Victorian coin-a blowsy Widow Britannia, landed tails down on the wet asphalt of the Welfare State...
...course academics have often held high positions of public trust. Ever since the benevolent protectorate of Woodrow Wilson, the fraternity has exerted great in fluence on public affairs. Scarcely a day goes by without the wires clattering out word of some stock market scare or Senatorial guffaw that is in direct response to a professorial edict. Only last week, a local critic noted with satisfaction that the Sunday literary supplements had depended "for years" on a stable of scholars who write weekly reviews...
Along with him and Bowditch, Wilson will probably call on one of three 6 ft., 4 in. freshmen, Gary Borchard, Marc Kolden, or Danner's brother Bill...