Tipping Talk From Baseball Folklore
The essay recalls Casey Stengel’s tip ban for the Yankees and contrasts past ballplayer tipping with modern habits. It traces how players lived on little, carried own bags, and valued modest meals, while noting a shift as more college and city kids enter baseball and the old Southern poverty mindset fades away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Casey Stengel
New York Yankees
Case
Yankees
Joe DiMaggio
Bucky Harris
Buddy Myer
Buck Newsom
Hank Greenberg
Russia
Ruth
South
Georgia
Florida
Mississippi
Carolinas
Farriners
Ellie Mae
Downs Senior Wins Special ASME Medal for Engineering
Dwight H. Harrison, a KU mechanical engineering senior, received the 75th anniversary ASME student medal at a Diamond Jubilee meet in Columbia MO. He attends KU on the dean's honor roll and is active in Pi Tau Sigma Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Tau, plus the KU ASME student chapter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dwight H. Harrison
Downs
Kansas University
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
ASME
Missouri University
Columbia
Midwest
Washington University
Missouri, University
Missouri Schools of Mines
Pei
Kansas State
Harrison
K.U
Summerfield
Pi Tau Sigma
Tau Beta Pi
Sigma Tau
Navy
Kansas engineer honors listed man of Marvin in college report
Harrison has served in the Engineering Council and is named among the Men of Marvin in the Kansas Engineer. He is a member of Sachem the national honorary for senior men and Scabbard and Blade the national military honor society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrison
Engineering Council
Marvin
Kansas Engineer
Sachem
Scabbard and Blade
India and Red China to Meet on Aviation Pact
Tokyo radio reported that India and Red China will hold talks soon to finalize an aviation agreement. The station did not specify a meeting location.
Japs Claim Whale Mark Kobe
One of Japan's whaling fleets returned from the Antarctic with a postwar record of 92 whales. The mothership Tonan Mart carried 6,346 tons of whale meat and 8,660 tons of oil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kobe
Japan
Antarctic
Tonan Mart
Carnival Capers at Eudora Grades Show
The Eudora grades four five and six presented Carnival Capers an operetta directed by Mrs Verlin Parsons in the gym auditorium Friday evening April 15 The cast included Gloria Blevins as Queen of Hearts Dennis Trabant as Theophilus Turtle Jack Murphy as King Cole and Carl Fleming as Knave of Hearts Allen Ott Joe Thatcher Jerry Kazmaier Galen Trabant Allan Ott Kenny Lawson and others with John Scott in the King's Fiddlers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Verlin Parsons
Queen of Hearts
Gloria Blevins
Theophilus Turtle
Dennis Trabant
King Cole
Jack Murphy
Willie
the Wolf
Robert Gabriel
Bobby Morely
Kenny Penny
Dorena Hausman
Rabbit
Kenny Lawson
Bow Wos
Clarence White
Quack Quack
Henry Ness
Carl Fleming
Allan Ott
Joe Thatcher
Jerry Kazmaier
Galen Trabant
John Scott
Theophilus Turtle Birthday Carnival Court Trial
The play centers on Theophilus Turtle turning 100 and hosting a Deep Woods carnival. King Cole grants him a wish to be king for a night, and a court trial follows when the Wolf is accused of eating Red Riding Hood and Grandmother. The cast lists many named characters and stage personnel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winkie
Evan Thompson
Jack Spratt
Larry Gabriel
The
Frog
Keith Allen
Stephen Border
Gary Clark
Michael Dykes
Albert Hall
Larry Marcum
Norman Mentzels
Gerald Rayburn
Gary Myer
Dwane Smith
Billy White
Donald Wright
Kings Guard
Glynn Blackman
Gary Grant
Nathan Hale
Wesley Hale
Lyle Kindred
Mike Fisher
Billy Long
Bobby Burns
George Martin
Merlin Mueller
Dean Neal
Robert Rist
Darryl Tuggle
Richard Tuggle
Dave Spitzli
Theophilus Turtle
King Cole
Wolf
Henry Penny
Red Riding Hood
King Turtle
Funeral services for Newton drive to Kansas City
Easter Sunday Suny Moore at Rumsey Funeral Home attended funeral services for Newton and later joined Mrs. Homer Abbott and son for Monday afternoon visits with Mr. and Mrs. J D Adams bireg in Lawrence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newton
Kansas City
Suny Moore
Rumsey
Inmate Heir to Part of Million Estate Revealed
Clifford L. Cunningham, a 73 year old confined 42 years in a Georgia mental institution, is among 26 possible heirs to a 1.471 million dollar estate from the late Count Robert C Mankowski. Special guardian Edward J. Gould urged the court to award Cunningham and the others 10 000 each immediately, noting many are ill or in necessity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Georgia
Clifford L. Cunningham
Milledge‘ville
Robert C. ‘Mankowski
Mankowski
Los Angeles
Grace Sterling Bixby Mankowski
John M. Bixby
Manhattan
Cunningham
Edward J. Gould
Gould
William T. Collins
Also Mentioned on This Page
Norris Bros
New Hampshire
Frances Alley
Wichita
National Secretaries Association
Lawrence
Eudora
David Weeks
Ronnie Means
Hans
the Woodsman
Dannie Warmaker
Jimmy
Danny
Jennings
Sharon Gabriel
Grandmother Riding Hood
Lois Criss
Sandman
Larry Folks
Kathleen Bearden
Alberta Bryant
Stella Bryant
LaVerna Burkhardt
Marilyn Frye
Barbara Hargrave
Carol Sue McGee
Alice Oliver
Bonna Rayburn
Dorothy Smith
Sharon Tuggle
Opal Young
Little Bo Peep
Laura Lee Thor
Evelyn Frazier
Billy Neis
Larry Ott
Curly
Stella Oliver
Jack
Piper
Jerry Ott
Little Miss Muffet
Marilyn Votaw
Richard Folks
Simple Simon and
the Pieman
Larry Beers
Howald Buerman
Jumping Joan
Gloria Votan
Jack Horner
Billy Risele
Jucy Locket
Sue Gerstenberger
Crooked Man
Elbert Anderson
Margery Daw
Sharon Steelmaker
Gregory Porgey
Douglas Morris
Tommy Tucker
Ronald Schmidt
Jack and Jill
John Broers
Louise Pierce
Mary
Carol Chittenden
Wee Willie
MFA
George Hayes
MFA Mutual Ins. CO
Mass
Potter's
Pnasig
Excent Mechanical
Velvet Pregts Ich Coram
Dairy Vic Melton
Christ
Eath
Massachusetts
J. J. Krimmer
Bennie Harris
Mental Hospital
Douglas County
State Bank
Lawrence, Kansas
U. S
TOTAL
C. J. Moyer
Chester G. Jones
Raymond F. Rice
Dick Williams
G. M Clem
Dorothy A. Rooney
G.M. Clem
Bank of Friendly Service
Ben Carman
Everett C. Hopp
L. E. Morgan
John Vogel
Odd Williams
Skipper Williams
Corel
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