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From the day he first set foot onto the "strawberry patch" in Shea Stadium's right field, with the long, lean frame of Ted Williams and the prodigious speed of a young Mantle, the man with the fruitiest name in the game was the ultimate baseball hero...
From the day he first set foot onto the "strawberry patch" in Shea Stadium's right field, with the long, lean frame of Ted Williams and the prodigious speed of a young Mantle, the man with the fruitiest name in the game was the ultimate baseballer...
...makes a prolonged visit, waiting for the birth of his grandson. The father is a grizzled old Yankee, and ideas predictably clash with those of his equally non-conformist but distastefully aesthetic daughter and her would-be husband (the couple never marry). In a climax as overwrought as the fruitiest of Bergman-either Ingrid or Ingmar-ex-med student Danny delivers his son without a doctor's aid, while fending off his 'father-in-law's' drunken attempts to break into the delivery-room. Just as the babe sees light, its grandfather brains himself on a lampstand...
...college had other benefactors. A roistering Irishman named "Jockey" John Robinson, who had made a fortune out of the "finest, fruitiest, most ropey" rye whisky in the region, gave $50,000 too. That did not mean the college's troubles were over. The Civil War left Washington College in desperate straits. Four months after Appomattox, it invited Robert E. Lee himself to be president. He was the one man, the college thought, who could save the day. Lee agreed to try, at a salary of $1,500 a year ("if that sum can be raised"). He started the schools...
...richest, the ripest, the most inspiring and the fruitiest group of all, was the group of serious students who were social about it." That was the answer of a University of Pennsylvania 1929 graduate-Samuel Lipshutz...