Word: bats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Benny owns the building in which his shop is located, the Harvard Advocate building "which is a traditional Harvard building." He rents out the upstairs only to Harvard organizations--the Bat Club and the Advocate "which is a traditional publication." Interested mostly in Harvard, Benny feels "Harvard is getting along all right. Harvard will always be Harvard...
...Hamhung with a duffel bag full of instruments. He elbowed some space in a field hospital, persuaded a peacetime obstetrician to team up with him, and got to work. By the time the evacuation was over, he had proved his point that brain operations could be performed under com bat conditions...
...Play Ball." Then Veeck fetched up a gag calculated to rouse angry mutterings throughout baseball's official hierarchy. Against the Detroit Tigers, Veeck led off his batting order with the strangest figure ever to wear a major-league uniform: brandishing a toy bat, a midget (3 ft. 7 in.) named Ed Gaedel stepped up to the plate. Before the Tigers could protest, Manager Taylor produced a bona fide contract, and the baffled umpire said, "Play ball." Tiger Pitcher Bob Cain, obviously afraid of hitting the batter with a fast pitch, admitted defeat by giving Gaedel an intentional walk* (Final...
...Hollywood's Gilmore Field, some 11,000 fans turned out to see a wacky softball game billed as the "Out of This World Series." After Captains Bob Hope and Gary Cooper met at home plate, grabbed a bat and mugged for the cameras, the shenanigans got under way. Final score: unknown-no one bothered to tot it up. But a total of $20,000 in gate receipts was turned over to charity...
...good deal too . . . when the camera swept the shirt-sleeved crowd one had the impression that all the customers had been laundered together with too much bluing in the water . . . If you watched intently while a batsman swung in a closeup, you saw a regular rainbow of bats of varying colors. For a fraction of an instant, the moving bat became a big Japanese...