Word: berthing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rackely replaced Carl Furillo, who suffered a groin injury last week, but Marv twisted his back while backing up a forth inning line drive to Duke Snider, and Luis Olmo came in to play left field, Hermanski was stationed in Furillo's right field berth until Carl pinch hit for him in the ninth. Mike McCormick played the spot in the last half inning...
Died. Beauford Halbert Jester, 56, Texas' middle-of-the-road Democratic governor (since 1947); of coronary occlusion; in a Pullman berth while en route to Houston...
...trying to tinker with the Grable formula, Director Sturges comes perilously close to forgetting the Grable form. Betty sings only a couple of songs, gets no chance to dance at all, and gives only two rather fleeting leg shows, once in an old-fashioned Pullman berth and again in the midst of a gunfight. A Sturges experiment is always worth watching, but most moviegoers would probably have settled for more Grable and fewer gags...
Iselin will be back in the lineup for tomorrow's race, but Curwen is still confined to the Infirmary. Sophomore Art Rouner, the regular jayvee stroke who gave him a battle for the varsity berth earlier this year, will be stroking today. John Hutchinson has moved up from the third boat to take over stroke in the Jayvees...
...Switzer will play first, Henry Young, short, and Ben Akillian, center field. Ralph Robinson has definitely won himself the right field berth. Nat Harris will probably plug up the hole in left field caused by Donelan's pitching assignment...