Word: alston
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...ball game was in the 13th inning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers were still locked tight in a 3-3 tie with the Houston Colts. In the Dodger dugout. Manager Walt Alston issued crisp orders to his lead-off batter, Shortstop Maurice Morning Wills...
...active players of 56 steals, set in 1959 by Chicago's Luis Aparicio. So swift and so canny is Wills that he has been caught trying to steal only five times this year, and the experts give him a chance to top even Cobb's record. Says Alston: "He's the greatest base stealer I've seen in the majors.'' Green Light for Go. The son of a Washington, D.C.. Baptist preacher. Wills spent nine years rattling around the Dodger farm system before the parent team brought him up to stay...
Most observers pick the Dodgers to win, but I think Walt Alston is capable of of keeping his multi-million dollar crew out of the running. Alston has a remarkable knack for platting young ballplayers who need to play regularly. Unless he is replaced by Durocher when the old Bums flounder in July, he may single-handedly keep Frank Howard and Willie Davis from becoming major league stars...
Ruddigore, as presented by the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players, is a very pleasant evening. If Mr. Philip Alston Stone, the director, has chosen to emphasize the more trivial aspects of an operetta at once both trifling and consequential (its plot, that is to say, is ridiculous; its music divine), no one can blame him--for he often makes the foolishness seem funny, a considerable accomplishment...
Also elected were Frederick W. McCarthy '63, of Dunster House and Dorchester, vice-president; Alston Fitts 1G, recording secretary; M. Patrick '64, of Lowell House and Webster Groves, Mo., corresponding secretary; and Gerald R. McMurray '64, of Lowell House and Neponset Queens, N.Y., treasurer...