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...distances, and over large bodies of water. As a matter of fact the waves it follows may not be radio waves at all but they may be air currents or some other form of wave. All the bird needs is a receiver mechanism akin to that owned by the bat and an inherited desire to follow the impulse rather than an inherited memory of a long-traveled path...
They were nothing but punks-callow, sullen, foul-mouthed youths. Tuberculous, bespectacled Johnny West was 22; he had a thin, bony body, a big nose, a girl's mouth, and a mind as weak and erratic as a bat's. Stocky, thick-lipped Robert Daniels was 24; there was a look of dull, animal vigor about him and he loved flashy clothes. But he had a psychopathic impulsiveness, an inability to consider consequences...
...hitter in Pittsburgh, drove all night to Chicago, shut out another team in twelve innings next day. Pitching for the Kansas City Monarchs in the 1942 Negro World Series, Showoff Satchel purposely passed a man to get Catcher Josh Gibson (Negro baseball's Babe Ruth) at bat, then forced him to send...
...audience an integral part of every show ... I conceive of this thing as being kind of a national Sunday game." How sure had he been? Says Cowan: "There are certain things that have the smell of a hit about them. This thing smelled like a hit right off the bat...
Because he was a Communist, Reporter Tom Buchanan was fired by the Washington Star. The Washington local of the American Newspaper Guild refused to go to bat for him (TIME, June 28). Last week, at its annual convention in San Francisco, the A.N.G. overwhelmingly (273 to 18⅓) reversed the Washington local ("Political belief [alone is not] just and sufficient grounds for discharge"), and urged the local to try to get Buchanan's job back...