Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Catcher: Isolated commercial at the start of a show...
Beeps for the Deeps. For sailboat skippers, the biggest eye-catcher was Luders Marine Construction Co.'s racy 40-ft. sloop, made from molded mahogany plywood, the biggest molded plywood hull yet made. Price: $38,500. For cruising yachtsmen, both power and sail, the electronics industry had some new gadgets. Both RCA and Raytheon displayed new lightweight radar and sonar sets that could search out schools of fish as well as tell the precise depth of the water. Bendix even has a radar set for close-in navigating that shows objects as near...
...National League's Most Valuable Player of 1954, baseball writers picked Willie Mays, the World Champion New York Giants' sensational centerfielder. Earlier the American League M.V.P. title went to the second-place Yankees' catcher, Lawrence ("Yogi") Berra...
...Manhattan, Yankee Yogi Berra broke a long-standing habit of holding out until late spring before accepting his season's contract. Offered an estimated $45,000, Yogi grabbed for a pen like a catcher going for a squeeze bunt, signed and became the best-paid backstop in baseball...
...Ford body since 1949. The new car is 1 in. lower than this year's, and will have wraparound windshields. V-8 horsepower will be stepped up from 130 to around 160. Ford has also spent millions on its powerful (up to 200 h.p.) new Mercury. Fanciest eye catcher: the Montclair, a new road-hugging car that will be close to the lowest in the industry. Last week brothers Henry, Ben and Billy Ford gave everyone a taste of the rugged kind of competition that they intend to serve up. They showed off their Thunderbird sports...