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...pages. Doubleday...
...Beethoven, a Mozart, a Chopin exerted in blending the harmonies and rhythms of their art, having created a smooth and masterful whole from diverse and individual bits and pieces, having molded a swashbuckling and exciting style of diamond exhibition, having succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of a John Harvard Doubleday and brought national acclaim to the bleak and Puritan New England athletic frontier, the Harvard baseball team is back...
...learn the language but found that "my teacher only taught me strictly formal Japanese when I needed a baseball way of talking." So he has adopted a kind of baseball interlingua. It was not too difficult, for many of Japan's basic terms are taken straight from Abner Doubleday's lexicon: an out is outo, a hit is hitto, a homer is homma and a batter is a batta. Blasin game also mastered such words as massugu (straight), tsuyoku (strongly), yukkuri (slowly) and a lot of what might be called body Japanese. "A tiny gesture from Breiza," explains...
SMALL CHANGES by MARGE PIERCY 562 pages. Doubleday...
Married. Nelson Doubleday, 40, grandson of the founder of Doubleday & Co. and executive vice president of the venerable, family-controlled American publishing giant; and Sandra Pine Barnett, thirtyish, a Connecticut real estate broker; both for the second time; in Greenwich, Conn. Three days later, Doubleday came into full control of roughly $10 million of company stock, worth $300,000 a year in dividends...