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Members of the older generation greeted the new craze-the first really daffy outbreak by U.S. college students since the days before World War II-with unconcealed irascibility. "It's going too far," said 34-year-old Teacher Gordon Southworth of Riverdale Country School in New York. "This pantie snatching is a case of sensualism . . ." Considering the source, it was a crushing rebuke, for on March 31, 1939, when an undergraduate himself, Gordon Southworth had made his contribution to the craze of the year by swallowing 67 live goldfish at one sitting-and had eaten a peanut butter sandwich...
Franklin C. Southworth, linguistics, University of Liege, Belgium...
Franklin C. Southworth, linguistics, University of Liege, Belgium...
...fans and the most vitriolic sportwriters of any city in the baseball world. Manager Joe McCarthy, who won eight pennants in twelve years with the New York Yankees, gave up after his Red Sox, two years in succession, had wound up in second place. The Braves' Manager Billy Southworth, who won three pennants in a row with the St. Louis Cardinals, did a little better, won a pennant for Boston in 1948. But last week, after the Braves had lost by one run in 15 games and slipped back into the National League's second division, Southworth also...
...baseball world, the resignation was no surprise. In the middle of the 1949 season, after weeks of wrangling among his players, Southworth, never quite recovered from the death of his son in a wartime B-29 crash, quit with a nervous breakdown. By this year, his successor had been picked: ex-Braves Rightfielder Tommy Holmes, 34, who was under training as manager of the Braves' Hartford (Conn.) farm club. When Billy Southworth, at 58, finally retired for good, Holmes was ready to step in. Said he: "It just happened sooner than I thought it would...