Word: counts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only position without several years of experience behind it is pitcher--but the Crimson hasn't suffered on that count. Sophomore Lora Rowning, who was 5-5 last year with a 1.27 earned-run-average, has shown great talent and poise on the mound...
Hoosiers is a hard term to define, though a current movie of that name picks at the synonyms of Indiana, basketball and Knight. The opening scene of rural roads, buckets and barns is faithful to Knight's picture of the place. Driving along, he likes to count the hoops. His best player, Guard Steve Alford of New Castle, learned to count on a scoreboard. Ever since Alford was a high school "Mr. Basketball," the Midwestern equivalent of a peerage, even his regimen on the foul line has been as famous in Indiana as the frost. (Touch your socks, your shorts...
...beautiful White Russian princess finds herself stuck in unpredictable wartime Berlin. One night it is a piece of suspect schnitzel and a cup of ersatz coffee. The next evening it could be oysters and champagne at the spacious flat of a baron or a count. The years pass, and she discovers that many of the swells with whom she works and plays are part of the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler in July...
...with a government information office, where there is less danger from the Gestapo than from Allied bombs. Her final months of war are spent as a nurse in Austria. A year later, she marries an American Army officer in a traditional Russian Orthodox service, with a French count and a German prince holding the wedding crown...
...didn't let her greenness show. After running the count to 2-1, Polikoff-who had come on in relief of veterans Lora Rowing and Janet Dickerman-retired the Smith batter on a fly ball to centerfield...