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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suits for Ballplayers. In 1947, Bill Veeck shook Cleveland fans with a threat to sell Lou Boudreau, his star shortstop and playing manager-but no one was certain Veeck had not played it that way deliberately. Boudreau stayed by public acclamation next season, and every time he crossed the plate he scowled up at Veeck's box. Cleveland thought it knew exactly what Boudreau was muttering-"That'll show him." Boudreau in his biggest year in baseball showed the boss so well that the Indians won their first American League pennant in 28 years. When they also beat...
Died. Gargantua the Great, twentyish, for twelve years Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey's "frightfully fiendish" star gorilla; of double pneumonia, cancer and complications; in his $10,000 air-conditioned cage in Miami...
When alumni are awarding scholarships to high-school seniors, and must choose among applicants, star football players should Get no preference 20% Get preference only when applicants are tied 33% Get substantial preference 39% Always get the scholarship 5% No answer...
When the University is awarding scholarships to high-school seniors and must choose among applicants, star football players should Get no preference 29% Get preference only when applicants are tied 46% Get substantial preference 20% Always get the scholarship 3% No answer...
Madness is the subject of this play, and it receives an excellent treatment in the hands of the Brattle Company and its guest star Ian Keith, who gives one of the greatest performances I have ever seen. "Henry IV" was one of the plays which won its author, Pirandello, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934. It is a provocative and ingenious investigation of sanity and reality, which uses the play-within-a-play idea. But with a difference...