Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Kirkland's basketball team took a firmer grip on first place in the A League last night by trampling Eliot 49 to 31, for its seventh straight win, Eliot never was in the game as the Deacons teamwork defense and fast-breaking attack completely outclassed the last-place Elephants...
...Playwright Robert E. Sherwood thumbed through a new edition of Painting as a Pastime and came to some definite conclusions about its author, Winston S. Churchill. "It would seem that if Mr. Churchill . . . considers each new, vacant canvas not as an ultimate objective, but as a point of determined attack," wrote Sherwood, "he must be rated as a young painter who is definitely worth watching...
...Kenneth Oberholtzer's convention guests, however, all that would have a familiar sound. All over the U.S., critics had raised their voices to attack the educators and the basic pragmatic philosophy of John Dewey from which in large part their system sprang. There were also critics with a simpler question: Were the schools trying to do too much, and thus doing nothing thoroughly...
...Mary Curley Donnelly, 41, and Leo Curley, 34, only daughter and eldest son of Massachusetts' ex-Governor James Michael Curley, longtime mayor (off & on) of Boston, the sixth and seventh of his nine children to die; she of a cerebral hemorrhage; he, the same day, of a heart attack, while making arrangements for his sister's funeral; in Boston...
Died. Arthur ("Art") Fletcher, 65, who saw action in 14 World Series, four times as a peppery, slick-fielding Giant shortstop in the McGraw era, ten times as a wily, hawk-eyed Yankee coach; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Fletcher joined the Yankees after four seasons (1923-26) as manager of the lackluster Phillies, turned down the chance to manage many another big-league team-including the Yankees-and stayed on until 1945 as one of baseball's highest-paid coaches...