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...Arrive at seat in last row of upper grandstand, section 23, less than one quarter mile from ringside...
...week's end the Browns and their adherents were having more fun than ever in the basement. A thousand grandstand managers sitting in a special section of the stands used big cards labeled "yes" and "no" to run the Browns' strategy against the Athletics, choosing the lineup, directing the infield play and steering Pitcher Ned Garver to his isth...
...Seas (Mutiny on the Bounty, Botany Bay, The Hurricane); of a heart attack; in Papeete, Tahiti. After flying in World War I's famed Lafayette Escadrille, Hall and his partner traveled to the South Seas to write, settled permanently on Tahiti, where Hall felt that he had "a grandstand seat to view the workings of a mad machine...
...tonight, the little people whose purchase of a grandstand seat keeps club owners in Candillacs and the upper brackets will stand up to be counted. Many who grew used to Number Five in white may not find it easy to think of Number Four in gray as the same guy. But when Boudreau steps up to the plate and points his fanny due north in his inimitable crouch, they'll remember well. And they'll hope he gets five for five and fields flawlessly, even if it means the ball game for the Indians...
...best hotels in Canton. There was a feast prepared for us, but because I was already late, there were no speeches or activities that night. We visited a large celebration several days after of the first anniversary of Canton's liberation, in which we had grandstand seats. Then we visited a college the training cadres, or for political training in general for those who wanted it. Again the students performed for us. As we were leaving a group of students came dancing out and bid us farewell, we joined them in dancing. (Yanko dance--forbidden by the Kuomintang--a peasant...