Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Louis, under Manager Rogers Hornsby, Old Pete had his greatest moment. He had helped the Cardinals in 1926 to St. Louis' first pennant in 50 years, won the second and sixth World Series games against Miller Huggins' New York Yankees, and had with Teetotaler Hornsby's acquiescence gone off on his standard Saturday-night binge. He was sleeping it off in the bullpen the next day when Hornsby, in a tight spot, called on him for relief duty in the deciding game...
...Cards had a seventh-inning lead, 3-2, but the Yankees had loaded the bases with two out. Lou Gehrig was on first, Bob Meusel on second, Earle Combs on third, and slugging Tony Lazzeri was up. Pete ambled sleepily to the mound, took a couple of warm-up throws and struck Lazzeri out on three pitches, went on to save the St. Louis lead and win the World Championship. Later, Pete reminisced about his second pitch to Lazzeri, which Lazzeri had hit whistling down the third-base line-barely foul. Said he: "A foot made the difference between being...
...Pinehurst, N.C., Slammin' Sam Snead over the field, with a 13-under-par 275, for his second consecutive (third altogether)North and South open golf title. ¶ In Brisbane, Australian Tennis Champion Frank Sedgman over U.S. Champion Art Larsen, a smashing, 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 victory for the Queensland title. ¶ In Baltimore, the Greentree Stable's One Hitter, twice conqueror of Noor, over a second-rate field for the winner-take-all $15,000 Pimlico Special. ¶ In Manhattan, perennial (22 years) world Court Tennis Champion Pierre Etchebaster (TIME, Dec. 26) over Challenger Alastair Martin...
Married. Mrs. D. H. (Frieda) Lawrence, 71, German-born widow of the English novelist (Lady Chatterley's Lover, Women in Love), who died in 1930; and her longtime friend, Angelino Ravagli, 59, Italian-born painter and ceramist; she for the third time, he for the second; in Taos...
...long, lost weekend on the campus are among the most effective renderings of the binge mentality since some of Fitzgerald's own. They follow Halliday down to the bottom of the glass and leave him there, dead among the dregs, with the tired, very tired self-epitaph: "A second chance. That's the delusion. There never...