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...Gold Coast, every year gourmets, scholars jazz flends, and sleep lovers, who like to stay in bed until five minutes before their classes. Lover's of the a synthetic can enjoy the House's fine print collection and hundreds of classical recordings; athletes can paddle in the pool or batter the ball on Adams' private squash courts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams Presents Good Food, Pool, Location Near to Yard | 3/24/1950 | See Source »

...Cake Batter. Nobody was working any harder to do it than Hearstling Pro Tern Fannie Hurst. Novelist Hurst, 60, wore a life-sized enamel calla lily, a jade ring as big as a crow's egg, and a jade-and-gold bracelet so heavy that she had to take it off to type her stories. Her journalistic style was equally flamboyant. She mixed metaphors as vigorously as a housewife mixing cake batter: "Even more than the cloak-and-dagger, who-done-it crime of 'grand passion,' the motives here involved strike, straight as the crow flies, into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Not Since Scopes? | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

While in Boston, he took care of himself in another matter by dropping in to see General Manager Joe Cronin of the Red Sox. After a brief talk, slugging Ted Williams, baseball's best batter, signed a 1950 contract for the most money ever paid a big-league player, an estimated $110.000.* Mourned Brooklyn's tight-fisted Branch Rickey, who had just raised Dodger Stars Pee Wee Reese and Jackie Robinson to alltime Brooklyn highs of $35,000: "In my 38 years . . . [in] organized ball this is the greatest inflationary period I've ever known . . . Even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Inflation | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

Raschi was in real trouble only once after the second. Gene Hermanski lined a base hit into right center in the fourth and get a triple when the ball took a freak bounce past Joe DiMaggio. Marv Rackley, the next batter, topped a slow roller toward second. Gerry Coleman raced in, gathered it up, and fired it to catcher Silvera just in time to nip Hermanski in a vicious slide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dodgers Win, tie Up Series | 10/7/1949 | See Source »

There is an obscure baseball rule that no batter may deliberately make an out, so the Dodger hitters all assumed peculiar chop swings. Roy Campanella, who has not hit a ball on the ground since Bill Cunningham denounced the Red Sox, suddenly bounced to third. After Antonelli walked six foot five inches Newcombe on a series of high outside pitches, Reese proceeded to deliberately hit the most beautiful double play ball to shortstop Ryan that could be imagined, a soft line drive on one bounce...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 9/30/1949 | See Source »

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