Word: gil
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...sixth, the rain started again. In the ninth, the ball was slippery, and Barney was pressing. With the count three-and-two, the first batter swung at a pitch up around his neck. The second Giant popped a mile-high fly to First Baseman Gil Hodges, who wiped the rain from his face and caught it. Then Whitey Lockman, who had hit three home runs off Barney earlier in the season, stepped up. He got a piece of the ball, but it fouled off near the Dodger dugout. Looking up into the lights, Catcher Bruce Edwards thought he was "seeing...
America's Town Meeting (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). "Is the Church Failing Our Youth?"-discussed by Minister-Miler Gil Dodds and others...
First Down. One of the mighty had already fallen: Miler Gil Dodds, Boston's Flying Parson, who had won 37 straight, but was out of the trials with a strained Achilles tendon in his left foot. He was off the team-but still far & away the best U.S. miler. After Dodds, the U.S. sure shots, everybody agreed, were Negro Shot-Putter Chuck Fonville of Michigan, Sprinter Mel Patton of Southern California, and Negro High-Hurdler Harrison Dillard of Baldwin-Wallace. Each, in the past year, has broken a world's record...
...Bloomfield, N.J., fully recovered from the mumps, dogged Gil Dodds ran the fastest mile of the outdoor season (4:08.8) on a water-logged track. His long-range objective: outfooting half a dozen Swedes, all of whom could do 4:04 or better, in the Olympic games...
...poky and protracted; it just won't keep movin' along. Nor has it very much more of musicomedy's factitious lure than of the old Hudson River Valley's drowsy charm; only here & there is a lyric sprightly, or the dancing gay. As Ichabod, angular Gil Lamb is likable and pleasant, but by no means a tide-turner. Best thing about Sleepy Hollow is the singing, which does a lot for the next best thing-the songs...