Word: york
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wiliest space grabbers ever to bamboozle an editor, New York Press-agent Jim Moran, 51, has found a needle in a haystack (after 82 hr. 35 min.), hatched an ostrich egg (19 days on the nest), sold an icebox to an Eskimo and two snow-blind fleas to Paramount (for use under klieg lights), to pitch himself or a client into the newspapers. Last week Moran was landing in print again, on a coast-to-coast search for "the happiest girl in America-a girl as happy as a Lark." His client: Studebaker's Lark...
...from Harvard Medical School ('24, cum laude), there was little in his life to suggest that his name would become synonymous with cancer research. Son of a Springfield (Mass.) ophthalmologist, young Dr. Rhoads took his internship under Boston's great Neurosurgeon Harvey Gushing, then went to New York's Trudeau Sanatorium (TIME, Dec. 6,1954), Adirondack Mountain headquarters for tuberculosis research and treatment. After a Boston stint in pathology, Dr. Rhoads joined Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute, studied immunity to poliomyelitis. The institute sent him to the tropics to work on diseases of the blood. There...
...supporting forces. Dr. Rhoads believed that the public must understand cancer research to support it, talked freely to the press. Subject of a TIME cover (June 27, 1949), he was photographed at the helm of his sailboat. This was what a willful band of little men in the New York County Medical Society had been waiting for. Jealous, they threatened him (always unofficially) with expulsion for publicity seeking. Though they never had the courage to act openly, they harassed him for a decade...
Yankee Dolor. In part, the new life in the American League can be laid to New York's Yankees, for this is the year the Yankees seem certain to lose the pennant. With the Yanks floundering, the new hit-less-wonder White Sox and the rebuilt Indians are playing like champions, and up and down the league the old also-rans are hustling with new life. Similarly, the National League's vigor can be traced in part to the troubles of the Milwaukee Braves, the league's soundest team at season's start, whose attack...
...existed as a toddler back home in The Bronx. Rocky was the youngest of five children born to Rocco Colavito, a sturdy, hard-working iceman, and Angelina Spodafino. Rocco and Angelina came separately to the U.S. in the early '20s from Bari, Italy, met and married in New York City. Rocky's boyhood heroes were his big brothers, Dominick and Vito, who taught him to throw and hit on the paved playing field of Public School...