Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confused with Manhattan's Rev. Samuel Moor ("Sam") Shoemaker, second in command in the U. S. Buchmanite movement...
...Once, when the curtain went up on the second act of a Broadway musical, the cast was astounded to find itself playing to an empty house. During the intermission, the audience had learned of the sinking of the Titanic...
...York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia appointed Idol Gehrig to a ten-year term on the Municipal Parole Commission, to serve as an inspiration to delinquent boys. Rich George Ruppert, brother of the late owner of the Yankees, offered to sponsor the baseball career of a "second Lou Gehrig," to be chosen from the sidewalks of New York (Gehrig's nursery). Last week the Baseball Writers Association of America, waiving the rule that a candidate must be out of play for at least a year, unanimously voted Lou Gehrig into Baseball's Hall of Fame* at Cooperstown...
...Nile Kinnick as the outstanding athlete of 1939. Because of his stamina (he played the full 60 minutes against such teeth-rattling opponents as Minnesota, Notre Dame, Michigan, Purdue, Indiana, Wisconsin) as well as his talents as passer, punter and ballcarrier, Hawkeye Kinnick received 21 first-place votes, three second-place, ten third-place-a total of 79 points. Nosed out was Baseballer Joe Di Maggio, with a total...
Lover, duelist, cowboy, playboy, musketeer on the screen, his private life was as romantic as his public. He traveled everywhere. His second wife was Mary ("America's Sweetheart") Pickford. Even when he was past 50, he leaped fences rather than go through gates, married the divorced wife of a British nobleman (a onetime mannequin), 20 years younger than himself...