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...cure is drastic: he must spend an afternoon in the Polo Grounds bleachers snarling his defiance at the civilized world-pleading with a succession of Giant pitchers to skull a batter and "stick it in his ear," begging every Giant base runner to spike an infielder and" chop his legs off." So it was on Sept. 29, 1954. Hano began the day by snapping at his wife. He spent the early morning standing in line waiting to buy a ticket to the bleachers. By 10 a.m. he was comfortably situated on a hard bench, killing time by reading his program...
EAST COAST GAS WARS are forcing bie producers to chop prices to retailers. With some Manhattan service stations selling gas as low as 15.8? per gal., Socony Mobil, Esso Standard Oil and others have cut wholesale prices up to ½? per gal. in most of the seaboard marketing area from Maine to Washington, D.C., the first price reduction in nearly a year...
...same fierce fascination that Mount Everest arouses in mountaineers. Since last April, when the Victoria Times offered $1,000 to the first swimmer to cross the strait, four men and three women have tried for the prize, have been defeated by the channel's fierce tides and unrelenting chop. Last week a barrel-shaped Tacoma logger named Bert Thomas, 29, slipped into the water at Port Angeles, Wash., swam through the night, and eleven hours, 17 minutes and 30 seconds later emerged cold and grinning on the Canadian shore...
...crossing the other way. He timed his 6:50 p.m. take-off from Port Angeles with a gentle evening ebb tide, put nearly four miles of water behind him in two hours. For once, the wind lay still and a gentle swell replaced the usual nasty chop. The water temperature was 48°. While a schooner scouted a mile ahead for friendly currents, the cruiser King Bacardi stayed with him. Once each hour, as Thomas rested, his handlers fed him orange juice through a plastic tube, gave him cigarettes to puff...
...recent try-out, however, Cambridge equalled the 1938 record of 3:37 for the 1600 yards from Chiswick Steps to Hammersmith Bridge. But Oxford turned in an excellent 4:10 to set a record for the mile row to Putney Bridge and chop five seconds from the best times of Cambridge crews...