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...have been trying to develop teamwork, and we are making progress. I believe that the duel meet with Dartmouth next Friday will find us winning as team," San Soucie said yesterday...
...second game, the Phillies' Robin Roberts and the Yankees' Allie Reynolds went into another pitching duel and at the end of the ninth the score was 1-1. In the tenth, Joe DiMaggio stepped up and demonstrated his old specialty: winning ball games with clutch home runs. Score...
...payoff game was a pitchers' duel all the way: Don Newcombe for the Dodgers, Robin Roberts for the Phillies-each trying to win his 20th game. The Phillies got a run in the sixth, but Dodger Peewee Reese promptly tied things up with a home run. It was still tied, 1-1, at the end of the ninth. In the tenth, the Phillies settled matters. With two men on, Leftfielder Dick Sisler shoved a fast ball into the left-field stands. It was the Phillies' first pennant in 35 years...
When Curli flourished his flag at the start, 39 speed-happy cyclists roared off around the treacherous four-mile asphalt course. Soon, as expected, the race settled down to a duel between Italy's Umberto Masetti, 23, riding a Gilera, and Britain's Geoffrey Duke, 27, on his Norton. For the world title, Masetti held a slim lead, 22 points to 19, based on six previous races this summer (eight points for first, six for second, four for third, etc.). In the final at Monza, all Masetti needed to clinch the 1950 title was to finish no worse...
Based on a novel by Niven (Duel in the Sun) Busch, the movie tells the story of a headstrong filly (Barbara Stanwyck) with a father fixation. The old man (the late Walter Huston) is a ripsnorting, tyrannical cattle baron who is so absolute a local sovereign that he even prints his own money. When Huston imports a Washington society matron (Judith Anderson) whom he plans to marry, Barbara works herself up to hurling a pair of scissors at the intruder's face. Banished for her impulsiveness, Barbara plots to wreck Huston and seize his domain. She recruits help from...