Word: bacharach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crazy Schedules. Campy was only 15 when the owner of the Bacharach Giants, an all-Negro semi-pro team, offered Mrs.' Campanella $353 week for her son's serv ices on Friday nights, Saturdays and Sun days. Mrs. Campanella boggled at the idea of Sabbath baseball, agreed only when the Bacharachs' owner promised that wher ever the team was playing, he himself would take Roy to church on Sunday...
...sooner was Campy squared away with the Bacharach Giants than he was hired away by the Washington Elite Giants (which later became the Baltimore Elite Giants). One afternoon the Elite manager gave Campy a uniform to try on and whisked him off to a game in Norristown, Pa. Before long, Campy quit high school and went barnstorming with the Elites from New York to Kansas City, following the crazy, mixed-up schedules of the Negro leagues...
Both scientists and laymen had ideas, and all week long they aired them to their hearts' content. "In my opinion, even though I am a scientist." wrote Chemist A. L. Bacharach, "fissionable (an Americanism, I believe), is not admissible, though fissile is." Nonsense, cried a gentleman from Churchfields. Woodford, "it is unquestionable that 'fissionable' is objectionable to the impressionable; but to the knowledgeable it is unexceptionable." Added someone from Harrow, Middlesex: "Fissionable is fashionable, and surely reasonably admissible. Fissible is risible...