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...gaining his fancy new repertory of curves and fireballs, he had lost all control. To offset his disadvantage, he soon taught rival pitchers how they, too, could throw American style. By the time the Honkbal season opened, the mound performances endangered not only batters, catchers and fans, but ballpark passers-by as well. There were so many walks that runs often outnumbered hits...
Hardly a Congressman was to be seen on Capitol Hill last week. House members were still enjoying a leisurely Easter vacation. Most of the scattering of Senators on hand spent one lazy afternoon at the ballpark, returned to wrangle over the steel seizure and the amount to be cut from the $7.9 billion foreign aid bill. Major congressional action of the week: none...
Based on a story by Richard Conlin, Angels is funniest when Douglas is still unregenerate, most offensive when a baseball commissioner, with the help of a priest, a minister and a rabbi, decides there really are angels in the ballpark. Best touch: the braying, indecipherable soundtrack that represents Paul Douglas' explosive profanity...
...Atlanta, Evangelist Billy Graham (TIME, Nov. 14, 1949 et seq.) was well under way with a soul-saving campaign in the Ponce de Leon ballpark fitted out to accommodate more than 20,000 people. With flashing eyes and flailing arms, the well-dressed young (32) successor to Billy Sunday was wringing fervent amens and penitence from his audience night after night. Mankind now stands on the brink of destruction, he warned his listeners. "Unless God sends a great awakening to the world, my two little girls will never see high school...
...eight days they packed the ballpark, protecting their heads from the sun with handkerchiefs and folded newspapers while they listened to reports and speeches, prayed and sang hymns. They kept 7,000 of their brethren busy cooking and serving meals in batches of 20,000, giving first aid to the heat-prostrated, returning lost children, painting signs, running a post office and arranging transportation. At night hundreds of them trekked back across the Hudson River to a 90-acre tent and trailer camp at New Market, N.J., where another 9,000 had listened in over loudspeakers. And in between times...