Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pins in three of his matches, winning by decision in the fourth. He will face the varsity's Dave Skeels. At 130, Paul Striker will face Cornell's George Willis, while at 137, the varsity's Bob Crook will face Charlie Gratto. Joey Noble will face Cornell's Glen Wise at 147, while Dick Vincent, undefeated for the Big Red, will face Jack Eastling...
Just two days after Pearl Harbor, Feller joined the Navy, lost nearly four years of his career. Returning to Cleveland in 1945, he was wise enough to know that it was time to substitute control, sharp-breaking curves and sneaky sliders for his fading speed, and he worked incessantly to stay in shape. Through it all he wore the relaxed and happy look of a man who likes his work, and for whom the great game was indeed a great game...
...Paul-Henri Spaak (see box) was more understanding. "After all, you couldn't expect a country the size of the U.S. to promise to consult a little country like Belgium before taking action on every problem posed to it anywhere in the world." The council approved the three wise men's recommendation that...
...judge a work of art according to prurient standards of "decency," says Kerr, professional critics tend to take an unreasoning position against any form of censorship; equally alarmed at this anarchic attitude, Catholics damn all critics as "artsakists" who are insensitive to sin and indifferent to its effects. Wise censorship simply means the exercise of prudence, says Kerr, but "the censor is not acting out of clear knowledge. He is acting in a kind of ignorance." And he should proceed with great caution for fear of destroying something good...
Died. Grace Reidy Comiskey, 62, blonde, baseball-wise widow of fleshy (400 lb.) J. Louis Comiskey. owner of the Chicago White Sox since his death in 1939; of a heart attack; in Chicago. Businesswoman Comiskey took over active control of the White Sox by breaking her husband's will, which named a trustee to run the club, became the American League's first woman president, later defeated her son Charles's efforts to win control...