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...Goldwyn of golf, whose hillbilly homilies are legends. Once Snead sat in the Boston Red Sox dugout during a baseball game and listened solemnly while his good friend Ted Williams held forth on the difficulties of baseball as compared with golf. Baseball, with a round bat and a fast-moving target, Williams explained, calls for much more skill than the quiet game of golf. "Maybe so," said Sam doubtfully. "But when we hit a foul ball, we've gotta get out there and play it." Another time, when Snead heard that Bing Crosby had just won the Academy Award...
...underground hospital, amid the stench of death, antiseptics and rotting wounds, Nurse de Galard lost 18 Ibs. in work and worry, She cut her hair very short; she switched at last to green fatigues, changing sometimes to a paratrooper's trousers and shirt. She had her own dugout with silk sheets, made from parachutes by one of General de Castries' orderlies, but more often she would sleep on a cot beside the wounded. Often, during the bitter days, she would take the last messages of the dying. "I am glad I am trapped," she once told...
...Then for three days, we lay where we were. Nobody bothered with us. One by one the badly wounded died. We had nothing to eat. The strongest ones dragged themselves over to a nearby dugout and found a few cans of French rations. Finally ten Viet Minh doctors and orderlies appeared. They made tents out of parachutes and put us inside them. They had nothing-no medicine, no disinfectants. The surgeons performed operations without anesthetics. We heard our comrades screaming. Then to our astonishment the French doctors and orderlies were brought back. Miss de Galard came back...
...curve that not a ball was hit out of the infield and only two were hit into the air. Had it not been for his two bases on balls and the three-Crusader errors, the entire Crimson team might just as well have remained in its canvas-covered dugout and prayed for rain, for nine of them swung at third strikes and two others looked at them...
...dark cloud. Some were nervous, but none cracked up. Bantam-sized (5 ft. 2 in., 103 Ibs.) Joe Sims of Birmingham struck out six batters, issued no walks, allowed only two hits in shutting out Schenectady, 1 to 0. The losers, moist-eyed but not bawling, pattered from their dugout to congratulate the Alabama players, who triumphantly hoisted Sims to their shoulders. The winners were then engulfed by autograph-hunting bobby-soxers. Piped one downy-cheeked champion: "This is worse than the game...