Word: batting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bainter) whom she has never seen before. Also on hand are: a chenille-voiced character named Mr. Sidney (Thomas Mitchell), who seems to have some curious authority over her genteel relatives; an overseer (Elisha Cook Jr.), who starts courting her with all the cozy intimacy of a vampire bat; and a local physician (Franchot Tone) who, somewhat to the detriment of the picture, is obviously a man she can depend...
...news you read in TIME, and to set you straight on the news when TIME (as all magazines must) occasionally misses the ball. (There are probably more facts in TIME per hundred words than in any other magazine - and as one subscriber once observed, "Nobody can go to bat as often as TIME does and bat...
...Woman in the Window (International) is a psychological thriller that tops anything in its line since Hitchcock's Suspicion. As the second time at bat for the newly formed producing team, International Pictures (TIME, Sept. 18), it marks another clean hit by Producer-Author Nunnally Johnson...
Born on Manhattan's Third Avenue 40 years ago, Bendix was the son of a singer, had one uncle who was a concert violinist, another who was a conductor at the Metropolitan. Spurning the family profession, he started life as a bat-boy for the New York Giants, later did some amateur acting at the Henry Street Settlement. He became a grocery clerk while still in his teens, eventually wound up as manager of a store in Orange...
...short. On one play, a slashing line drive was hit over second base. Prof. Nillson dove for the ball. He speared it with his gloved hand. Then he fainted. Speed-merchant Bursk could not seem to get together with himself. Chuck Livesey played a terrific game at the bat and in the field. (So what? Sources is our toughest course...