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After they drove knuckleballer Dutch Leonard (16-7) to cover-Leonard pitched the Tigers out of last year's pennant-40-year-old Doc Cramer broke up the party with a game-winning triple. Score: Detroit 7, Washington 4. In the nightcap, Rudy York shrugged off the menace of high-walled Griffith Stadium (the Senators have hit only one homer there all year) by belting his 18th. That helped Dizzy Trout (18-14) realize an iron-man promise to win five games in two weeks. Score: Detroit 7, Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Crusher | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

...inventor is Hollywood's versatile Ulrich L. ("Doc") Di Ghilini, professional magician, exposer of spiritualistic fakes and amateur art collector (TIME, Oct. 14, 1940). After five years of experiments, in his garage and (after the neighbors complained) in a Beverly Hills furniture store, Di Ghilini developed a recording machine which embosses (presses) a sound groove in a disc instead of cutting it, which is the accepted current method. His embossing system makes it possible to run a record at much slower speed than on the usual phonograph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: All-Day Records | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

Bach called for a sergeant: "Tag this fellow. Doc wants to get him out of here at once." The sergeant knelt before the wasted prisoner, who now sat at attention. Captain Bach spelled out his own name to the prisoner and then asked: "Where do you come from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE ENEMY: The Rocking Horse | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

Recent threats of that eminent physician and scholar, apple-faced "Doc" Reichard, seem to bear this out such succulent meals doth he prepare...

Author: By The PEARSON Twins, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 7/19/1945 | See Source »

Last week saw the opening of a new field to Doctor "I have a lady in the balcony" Reichard as he carried his gifted physique about the golf course in 100 or better. "Snead," says the Doc, "seems a little bit worried, but it may take me a few months to win the P.G.A. crown...

Author: By Pearson Twins, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 4/17/1945 | See Source »

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