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...major-league baseball games. He paid the major leagues only $1,000 a year for the privilege of broadcasting play-by-play accounts received on a teletype from the East, put the games on the air with dubbed-in sound effects of cheering crowds and the crack of bat against ball. His formula worked; soon other stations in the West and Midwest were clamoring for the broadcasts. McLendon joined them to his Liberty Broadcasting System, by last year had a network of 458 stations, second only to Mutual...
...action. There is the feat of Commander Sam Dealey's Harder, which deliberately went out after the subs' greatest natural enemy, the destroyers, got five on one patrol, and came back to tell about it. There is an account of Commander J. K. Fyfe's Bat fish, which stalked enemy sub marines and sank three in four days. And there is the near-incredible last patrol of Commander Richard O'Kane's Tang, which sank eleven ships and was finally sent to the bottom by one of her own torpedoes...
...venerable Dizzy Trout won't mean much in the grand scheme of things, true. But Hoot Evers could bring the pennant to Fenway. He's fast, he's strong, and although he didn't hit a loud foul all last year, he can be a big man at bat. He proved that...
...Batting left handed one handed and hopping instead of running. Dunster's softball team dropped a close 6 to 5 1/2 game to the Radcliffe varsity on the Cliffe quad yesterday. (Dunster's runs only counted half.) Denise Mangravite starred for Radcliffe at bat and in the field...
McCarran whacked his gavel, stared at the witness and cautioned: "This is a government of law . . . You'd have made yourself a tower of strength if you had answered that affirmatively right off the bat." McGranery got the point. "There's no man above the law," he said...