Word: bats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than 270 U.S. dailies. Cartoonist "Lichty" has created such harried, irascible characters as potbellied, spindle-legged Bascomb Belchmore. Senator Snort, Mr. Snodgrass, and a diabolical moppet named Otis. They are inevitably trapped in ridiculous situations of their own making. In one cartoon Senator Snort, .dressed in flowered waistcoat and bat-winged collar, tells a group of reporters: "I welcome any inquiry into my program for a foreign policy, gentlemen ... I have often wondered what it is myself." Last week Cartoonist Lichty was forced to grin and bear a real-life situation as ludicrous as any he has ever drawn...
...middle part of the batting order was off yesterday, as it has been in several other games. Besides Butters, who stranded seven runners in three times at bat, clean-up man George MacDonald and fifth batter Cleary went hitless. When this part of the attack starts to produce, the Crimson's occasional fielding lapses should go unnoticed...
...with a 7 to 2 win last Thursday. John Simourian will play first; Bob Hastings, second; Don Butters, third; and Jim Murray, short. Dick Hoffman will open in left field, Bill Cleary in center, and Matt Botsford in right. Captain George MacDonald will continue to play catcher and bat in the clean-up position in the batting order...
Sophomores John Simourian and Matt Botsford, the first baseman and right fielder respectively, have been the most active at bat, each collecting seven hits...
...lawns, lake and a line of wind-blown beeches, 254 miles north of London. Anthony Eden was born there in June 1897, the third son of irascible Sir William Eden, an eccentric country gentleman who detested children and barking dogs with equal enthusiasm. At Eton, Anthony played a straight bat and pulled a respectable oar; then, like so many of Britain's public-school boys of his day, he went off to fight in Flanders...