* John W. Henry ( born 1949 ), American businessman, principal owner of the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool FC

Moosup's claim to fame is that it is the boyhood hometown of Walt Dropo, During a 13-year career in Major League Baseball, he played for the Boston Red Sox ( 1949 – 1952 ), Detroit Tigers ( 1952 – 1954 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1955 – 1958 ), Cincinnati Redlegs ( 1958 – 1959 ) and Baltimore Orioles ( 1959-1961 ).

* Dave Wohl ( born 1949 ), Assistant General Manager of the Boston Celtics.

His career revived when from 1941 to 1949 he played the character Boston Blackie in 14 low-budget movies produced by Columbia Pictures, starting with Meet Boston Blackie, and one season of radio shows.

* Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture ( 1949 )

Ted Collins had founded that franchise in 1944 as the Boston Yanks, moved it to New York City in 1949 as the Bulldogs, and renamed it the Yanks in 1950.

The Dodgers would merge with the Boston Yanks franchise in 1945 ( with the Brooklyn half " moving " to the AAFC the next year as the New York Yankees ); in 1949, the Yanks moved to New York and became the New York Bulldogs.

McMahon attended Boston College in 1940-41 and later graduated from the Catholic University of America, majoring in speech and drama on the GI Bill in 1949.

Bjørn Aage Ibsen ( 1915 – 2007 ) graduated in 1940 from medical school at the University of Copenhagen and trained in anesthesiology from 1949 to 1950 at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

# Vern Stephens: 128 ( Boston Red Sox 1949 )

# Johnny Pesky: 48 ( Boston Red Sox 1949 )

During the reign of the second NWA World Heavyweight Champion, Lou Thesz ( 1949 – 1956 ), the title was further unified with several more previously-competing " World " titles, such as those recognized jointly by the National Wrestling Association and the American Wrestling Alliance ( in Boston ), plus another version promoted from the Los Angeles Olympic Auditorium.

He also earned a PhD from Boston University in 1949.

Mathews was signed by the Boston Braves in 1949.

The premiere was given by that orchestra on December 2, 1949, conducted by Leonard Bernstein in Boston.

After the war, he graduated in 1949 from Boston College.

The song, based on a much older version called " The Ship That Never Returned " ( or its railroad successor, " Wreck of the Old 97 "), was composed in 1949 as part of the election campaign of Walter A. O ' Brien, a Progressive Party candidate for Boston mayor.

Chester Morris played Boston Blackie, a former jewel thief turned detective, in fourteen films from 1941 to 1949.

Produced by Columbia Pictures, many were mysteries laced with comic relief such as Meet Boston Blackie ( 1941 ), Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion ( 1945 ), The Phantom Thief ( 1945 ), and Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture ( 1949 ).

* 1949: John H. Crider, Boston Herald, " for distinguished editorial writing during the year.

In 1947 he wrote a play about the Salem Witch Trials, " Wahn oder der Teufel in Boston " ( Delusion, or The Devil in Boston ), which premiered in Germany in 1949.

The Bulldogs were renamed the New York Yanks in 1949.

Only four players from the 1949 Bulldogs ( Joe Domnanovich, Joe Golding, John Nolan and John Rauch ) played for the Yanks in 1950.

* New York Giants v Brooklyn Lions / Horsemen ( 1926 ), New York Yankees ( 1927 – 28 ), Orange / Newark Tornadoes ( 1929 – 30 ), Staten Island Stapletons ( 1929 – 1932 ), Brooklyn Dodgers / Tigers ( 1930 – 1944 ), New York Bulldogs / Yanks ( 1945, 1949 – 1951 )

In 1953, the franchise that had previously been the Boston Yanks ( 1944-48 ), New York Bulldogs ( 1949 ), New York Yankees ( 1950-51 ), and Dallas Texans ( 1952 ) revived the Baltimore Colts name ; this team is now the Indianapolis Colts.

In 1949, Jack Sheedy, the owner of a San Francisco – based record label called Coronet, was talked into making the first recording of Brubeck's octet and later his trio.

He played ranch owner Bob Kitteridge in the 1949 episode " Legion of Old Timers " of the TV series The Lone Ranger.

Jim Lampley ( born April 8, 1949 ) is an American sportscaster, news anchor, movie producer, and restaurant owner.

: Paul Reiner had sold the masters from the Tatum, Cyril Nathaniel Haynes ( 1915 – 1996 ) ( piano ), and Norvo sessions to Dial Records owner, Ross Russell, closing the deal in June 21, 1949, via telephone.

In 1940, the airport was taken over by the Federal Department of Transport to serve the war effort and was not returned to its original owner, the City of Calgary, until 1949.

Balbir Singh Sodhi ( 1949 – September 15, 2001 ), a gas station owner in Mesa, Arizona, was murdered in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in the first of several cases across the United States that were reported to the police as acts of retaliation for the terrorist attacks.

Edmond Loubat began to buy shares in the estate and continued the acquisition progressively until 1949 when she was the sole owner of the domaine.

The Port Authority of NY & NJ purchased it on April 1, 1949, from Fred L. Wehran, a private owner and later leased it to Pan American World Airways ( and its successor organization Johnson Controls ) for 30 years until December 1, 2000, when the Port Authority assumed full responsibility for the operation of Teterboro.

In addition to his media acquisitions, by 1949 Thomson was the owner of a diverse group of companies, including several ladies ' hairstyling businesses, a fitted kitchen manufacturer, and an ice-cream cone manufacturing operation.

As owner of the Leafs during numerous championship years, his name appears on the Stanley Cup eight times: 1932, 1942, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1962.

Added to this in 1949 was the Northern Counties Committee ( NCC ), owned by the British Transport Commission's Railway Executive since its previous owner, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway ( LMS ), had been nationalised in 1948.

John Harold Force ( born May 4, 1949 in Bell Gardens, California ) is an NHRA drag racer, a 15-time Funny Car champion driver, and a 17-time champion car owner.

The manor house, known as Crossgar House, was put up for sale by its last owner, Colonel Llewwllen Palmer, in later 1949.

Greg Shaw ( January 1949 – October 19, 2004 ) was a Los Angeles-based fanzine publisher, music historian and record label owner.

Tarak Ben Ammar () ( born on June 12, 1949 in Tunis, Tunisia ) is an international movie producer and distributor, ( the owner of French production and distribution company Quinta Communications.

Large portions of shares in the estate were bought by the Bordeaux wine merchant Fernand Ginestet ( then owner of the adjacent Château Lascombes ) in 1925, and the family share was gradually increased to allow his son Pierre Ginestet to take complete ownership in 1949.

* Wallace Ray Davis ( 1949 – 2007 ), televangelist and owner of Affiliated Media Group

* George H. Richardson, owner of the Washington Senators, 1920 to 1949

The Olivetti Lettera 22 is a portable mechanical typewriter designed by Marcello Nizzoli in 1949 or, according to Telecom Italia ( the current owner of Olivetti ), 1950.

Launched on 6 November 1947 for a Polish owner, she was the first of 29 ships Project B30 type, built in 1949 – 1954 in Stocznia Gdańska.

Tribune Company purchased the Times-Mirror Company ( then-owners of the Los Angeles Times ) in 2000, bringing the Times into common ownership with channel 5 ; the arrangement placed the Times under the ownership of another Los Angeles area station, as it was the original owner of Los Angeles ' Fox owned-and-operated station KTTV from 1949 ( under a joint venture with CBS through 1951 ) until it sold the station to Fox Television Stations predessor Metromedia in 1963.

In the 1949 production with Alan Ladd as Gatsby, Da Silva played garage owner George Wilson ; in the 1974 film with Robert Redford, Da Silva was Meyer Wolfsheim, the flamboyant gambler with the interesting cufflinks.

He played Umberto Scalli, a sleazy gymnasium owner and drug pusher in three films: The Devil's Sleep ( 1949 ), Racket Girls ( aka Pin Down Girls ( 1951 )) and Dance Hall Racket ( 1954 ) with inconoclastic comedian Lenny Bruce in his only film role.