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...well say that Joe DiMaggio is batting so poorly that 14 times out of 45 times at bat he failed to hit a home run. For, make no mistake about it, a gold medal awarded by a California State Fair jury is a home run in wine, and 31 is a lot of gold medals...
Tranquil with an If. President Painter didn't fire Dobie, but he did bat an eye. After his first year in office, he reported that everything was now tranquil on the campus, and that he would not tolerate "any further attempts on the part of individuals within our staff ... to besmirch the good reputation of the university." Dobie decided that that meant him. In the weekly Texas Spectator, he called Painter "a flunky of the Laval pattern...
Victory Dance. The loudspeaker roared out "Lavagetto batting for Stanky." Oldtimer "Cookie" Lavagetto, a near has-been, who had been a Dodger longer (eleven years) than anyone else on the team, rubbed dirt on his hands and strode up to bat. He swung viciously at the first pitch, trying too hard. The next pitch was high but Cookie swung again-and this time connected. The ball screamed toward right field, hit the fence six feet over Outfielder Tommy Henrich's head...
...stayed there ever since." He bitterly regrets the day "the male and female crooner, or moaner, began to trouble the night air. . . . 'Craziness' in entertainment . . . is still the general note today. Nothing must mean anything-a reflection, no doubt, of the general life of this age. Bat's wings, bat's eyes, and bat's brains...
Under cover of darkness, the Haganah captain escaped the British and raced for the Palestine shore. The Arlossoroff beached in the little town of Bat Galim, near Haifa, and prepared to resist British boarding parties...