Word: york
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rude cheers resounded in bars and beer joints across the country as the mighty New York Yankees, winners of nine American League pennants in the past ten years, last week thudded into last place for the first time since 1940. The Yanks' team batting average was a puny .243 v. .266 at the same time last year, when they led the league by 6½ games. The Bronx Bombers had been shut out five times in the first six weeks of 1959. The pitching was poor too. Last week Yankee Aces Whitey Ford and Bob Turley were both knocked...
...fact that other cities are clamoring for major league franchises, declared they would "favorably consider" a third major league composed of "an acceptable group of eight clubs." Said Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick: "I firmly believe we will have a third league within five years." Likely applicants: New York, Buffalo, Dallas-Fort Worth, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Seattle, Mexico City, Montreal, Toronto...
...North Texas State College, has had eleven A's and one B in the last three semesters. Winn is president of the 7,000-member student body, also wrestles, swims, plays golf, and runs the 100-yd. dash. ¶ Mrs. Bianca C. Stewart, 22, of New York City, has been blind for twelve years. A dean's list and Phi Beta Kappa Senior at Queens College, she majors in English and plans to get an M.A. at Columbia University for an eventual teaching career...
...York subway is clearly out of his depth. He boards it bearing a pretty bunch of posies and a confident smile; both disappear as the subway doors close on the posies. It takes him forever to figure out on which side of the train the doors will open next, and when he does, he is sandbagged by a horde of inrushing travelers. By the time the train clears and he can escape, he has fallen asleep on his feet...
Amid the ad-rich thickness (12 sections, 5 lbs.) of last Sunday's New York Times, folded between the polite Book Review and the dignified Sunday Magazine, was a new, 16-page section that promised everything from history to sex-with four-color photography. The great stone face of Gary Cooper, garbed as a U.S. cavalryman (circa 1916) frowned from the cover, Vilma Banky and Marlene Dietrich appeared on pages 4 and 5, Rita Hayworth curved across pages...