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...place of Don Mueller, who injured himself reaching that position the last time) and Whitey Lockman on second. Bobby Thomson was supposed to let one strike go by and hit the next pitch into the left field seats. But Bob Kuzava failed to take the role of Ralph Branca seriously. His first pitch was a ball, and Bob Thomson couldn't find his place. With appalling inability to ad lib, Thomson lifted a fly to left and Dark scored, but it wasn't the same thing...
Chuck Dressen, Dodger manager, lifted Newcombe and put in Branca to pitch to Thomson. The Staten Island Scot took hold of Branca's second pitch and knocked it into the left field stands to win the ball game for the Giants...
Scarcely had Bobby Thompson slammed Ralph Branca's ninth-inning pitch into the left field stands yesterday before managers Leo Durocher of the Giants and Casey Stengel of the Yankees began to work on today's line...
...aviation [whatever happens]." The drug brought brief improvement. Radio Amateur Fred von Rekowsky, in New York City, kept up two-way talk with an amateur in Portugal, checking on the girl's progress. This week he heard the end of the chapter: despite everything, nine-year-old Branca Maria Medina dos Santos was dead of tuberculous meningitis...
...Oporto doctor gave Branca Maria an injection of Varidase, and waited to see what would happen. (The theory is that the enzymes help to dissolve clotted pus, enable an antibiotic such as streptomycin to go to work on the germs without interference.) Within 45 minutes, Branca Maria took some food and kept it down. It was too early for the doctor to tell whether the usually fatal disease was being arrested. But Santos flew back to Lisbon, picked up a dozen more vials of Varidase to keep up the treatments. Said he: "God bless radio and aviation. Whatever happens, this...