Word: winningly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half that much. The rank and file is tired of the cozy old system whereby union leaders cooperate with the government and in turn get cushy government jobs. Sample: Labor Confederation Chief Fidel Velázquez is also a Senator. Even if López Mateos' stern measures win this round, the show of worker loyalty behind Vallejo was a signal of more labor turmoil ahead...
...followed with another homer-all off Ike Delock, Boston's winningest pitcher last year. In his box behind third base, the Giants' President Horace Stoneham smiled broadly. "This is a real team," he said. "We'll be there all the way this season, and if we win it, there may be no stopping us for five years to come." Nobody seemed to mind that the Giants eventually dropped the game on a late-inning homer by Boston's Frank Malzone...
...Grosse Pointe, Mich., Judy Devlin, 23-year-old Baltimore schoolteacher and daughter of Former World Champion J. Frank Devlin, drubbed all opponents to win the U.S. open badminton singles for the fourth straight year, in the final allowed her opponent only a single point...
...fastest automobile race ever run, Miami's Jim Rathmann drove his Simoniz Special around the steep-banked, 2½-mile track of the new Daytona International Speedway at an average speed of 170.261 m.p.h. to win the 100-mile U.S. Automobile Club championship race, breaking his own closed-course record, which he set by winning the Monza, Italy 500-mile race last year. The speed of the race brought death to Wisconsin's George Amick, 34, No. 2 in last year's Indianapolis race. On the last lap, his Bowes Seal Fast Special went out of control...
Died. Johnny Allen, 53, righthanded pitcher who-from 1932 to 1944-threw wild tantrums and controlled smoke balls while playing for five major-league clubs (Yankees, Indians, Browns, Dodgers, Giants), won 142 games, lost only 75, achieved in 1937 a win-loss ratio (15-1) that has not been bettered; of a heart ailment; in St. Petersburg...