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...silence. As the season drew on, the clap-clap-clapping for a rally that once quickly faded began echoing through the ballpark in confident, continuing waves. By last week fans who had not bothered to see a game since Walter ("Big Train") Johnson retired in 1927 were hurrying to Griffith Stadium in time for batting practice, and dazzled team officials were saying that attendance for the year would be up 40%. The Washington Senators, long known for patty-ball hitting, were flashing the most exciting attack in baseball, a latter-day "murderers' row"* of strong silent men determined...
...distinguished himself. But he has a thorny, give-and-ask-no-quarter personality; he also has an implacable opponent of great talent and resolve. The result is Washington's highest drama - played out on the Senate floor, in cloakrooms, at black-tie dinners, in the seats at Griffith Stadium. As written by Bill Bowen and edited by Champ Clark, see the cover story on The Strauss Affair...
...around the skull of another. Then her saloonkeeper boy friend (Scott Brady) proceeds to give the sheriff an incurable case of lead poisoning. It is obviously high time for law and order to come to the town of Bottleneck. And it does, with no-gun Deputy Tom Destry (Andy Griffith) fresh out of law school and full of wide open spaces in his speech...
Musicomedienne Gray can line-drive a song to the exits, Merman-fashion, but her Frenchy never travels more than one block west of Broadway. Griffith's Destry is immensely likable but far too much the Arkansas traveler to suggest any purpose deeper than palaver. Everyone works hard to prove that everything, except the performance, is a joke. But Destry Rides Again only for the gold in them thar box-office tills...
...outfielder in his college days at Michigan State, Dr. Briggs left nothing to chance in his experiments. He measured speed and spin in the National Bureau of Standards wind tunnel. For live experiments, Dr. Briggs measured the curve-throwing ability of the Washington Senators' staff in Griffith Stadium, found the best of them could break off a curve at 1,600 r.p.m. Presumably, better pitchers on other clubs could approach 1,800 r.p.m., achieve the maximum curve. As for speed, 100 ft. per sec. is well within the range of a big-league pitcher. Fastest pitch ever recorded...