Word: clem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...angrily divided between moderates and left-wingers. Before the delegates was a 30,000-word report documenting its failures. "We are an aging party . . . We are entirely failing to appeal to youth." But the whisper that went round the bars of Margate with the greatest insistence was: "Clem must go. If he won't go himself, someone will have to tell...
...Fourth Game found Casey Stengel still saving his veteran pitchers while Alston was forced to work his best. They were more than good enough. Carl Erskine lasted only three innings, but Don Bessent and Clem Labine teamed up behind him to hold the Yankees off. Snider, Campanella and Hodges all homered, and Snider was superb in the field. The Yanks got scant consolation from McDougald's wasted first-inning home run. Final score: Dodgers 8, Yankees...
...third and fifth-his eighth and ninth in series play. Still Casey Stengel stuck with his starting pitcher. Bob Grim. In the seventh, the Yanks began to rough up Dodger Rookie Roger Craig; Pinch Hitter Bob Cerv reached him for a home run and Dodger Manager Alston brought in Clem Labine. Casey countered with Bob Turley and Berra contributed a home run. It was not enough. The Dodgers scored once more in the eighth, won the game...
...gets behind and has to come in with it, good hitters murder him. He holds his team record for throwing home-run balls (35 this season). Right-hander Carl Erskine has been off form all year; Billy Loes and Johnny Podres are just too erratic to be counted on. Clem Labine, right-handed relief artist, the pitcher who did most to keep the Dodgers in front, will be a busy man in the bullpen. On the brighter side, Don Bessent, called up from St. Paul in midseason, has the speed and control to become rookie sensation of the series...
Last week Clem Attlee announced his decision to a meeting of the Labor M.P.s: he would definitely resign at the end of the present session of the House in. July 1956. Up leaped Bevan himself. "No!" cried Bevan. "Clem, I implore you not to fix a time for your departure." It would only encourage rivalries just when the party needed to draw its warring factions together, he pleaded. Bevan added quietly: "I have no personal ambitions for leadership at this moment . . . I have no intention of forcing a contest...