Word: bats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many schools think "they are training their people to work for the New York Times and no one else." Journalism graduates "want to become city editors, yea, managing editors, right off the bat and are offended when they are told to write obits instead." Most of them "do not have the slightest notion how to go about digging up a story . . . The boys we get from journalism seem to be in a fog, lack initiative, have a lackadaisical attitude toward...
...heavy daytime losses, would launch an attack at night. With Lieut. Commander Edward H. ("Butch") O'Hare, famed Congressional Medal winner, Radford worked out a radar-equipped night fighter system. When -sure enough-Jap torpedo planes were reported approaching after dusk, O'Hare took off with his bat team. Two of the approaching Japs were splashed (shot down) and the others, disconcerted, turned back. O'Hare never came back from the mission...
...TIME'S Aug. 7 intrepid angler who caught "both fish & foul" [he claimed that a fish grabbed one hook and a bat the other...
...alliteration is tempting but the bat is not a fowl, it's a mammal...
...togged out in pullover, batter's gloves and pads, British Cinemactress Jean ("Ophelia") Simmons struck a pose while waiting her turn at bat in the contest of Pinewood Film Studio v. the Cranleigh School. Cricketer Simmons scored 14 runs, helped Pinewood win by three wickets...