Word: yanks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the front office. Once, when a Yankee pitcher was called on the mat for openly betting on the horses, Bucky piped up with, "So what ... I'd bet too, if I thought a tip was any good." If he had any fault, it was his reluctance to yank pitchers when the going got rough. But his patience worked wonders with Joe Page, a relief pitcher with an inferiority complex who did more than any player-aside from DiMaggio-to bring the Yankees their 14th pennant in 27 years...
Alarming Bugs. The Navajos, fearful at first of the white man's medicine, watched with blank faces while the doctor treated the white traders. Presently some of the bolder Indians began to ask him to patch up their injured horses and to yank their own aching teeth. The Indians soon discovered that the hospital could be useful, too. When a Navajo dies at home, tribal custom decrees that his hogan (hut) must be burned. By hurrying a dying relative to the hospital, the Navajos learned to save their hogans...
William Hodding Carter, Jr., Editor and publisher of the Delta Democrat-Times, Greenville, Miss., and former publisher of the Cairo edition of "Stars and Stripes" and "Yank" magazine; awarded Pulitzer Prize for editorials in 1946, Southern Writers Award for his novel, "Wings of Fear." Master of Arts. Citation: "Writer and publisher, forward looking interpreter of the South, we welcome back a former Nieman Fellow...
...jokesmith of his day is a six-foot gag-&-stunt machine named Milton Berle (rhymes with churl). His 38-year-old brain is a tight-packed file of some 50,000 jokes and japes. With never-miss efficiency, Berle can dip into these mental files, yank out just the gag he wants when he wants it. The "Thief of Badgags" (as spiteful rivals call him), who has probably lured more people into nightclubs than any performer alive, is now making his sixth attempt in 18 years to lure listeners to their radios with a Berle show...
After considering the proposition for the last three weeks, Davis, who graduates this June, has still not definitely decided whether or not to accept. "I don't think pro-football is the career for me," was his reaction yesterday, "and I doubt very much that I'll become a Yank...