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...physician, Dr. Howard M. Snyder, led him quickly into a small reception room, where he slumped, weak and spread-legged, on a chair to rest and sip a little coffee. But an all-but-sacred presidential duty awaited him-an hour later he was at Washington's Griffith Stadium to throw out the first baseball of the season. Rest had improved his color. He spat on his right hand, grinned, and sent a new white baseball flying to the field, watched the game for an inning and a half (with Washington's Pitcher Connie Marrero standing...
Washington's Griffith Stadium. Riding a tailwind, the ball sailed over the left-centerfield bleachers 460 ft. away, bounced off a 60-ft. sign, and came to rest in a backyard 565 ft. from home plate. "I unloaded on it," said Mickey Mantle. "I guess it was the longest ball I ever hit in my life...
...York Yankee centerfielder Mickey Mantio yesterday smashed a mighty 562-foot home run over the center field wall at Griffith Stadium in Washington. Babe Ruth's 600-feet homer in Briggs Stadium in 1926 was the longest homer ever...
Choice of the Senators as a long shot for third is due to Griffith's realization that Latins can play "beisbol" as well as anyone else. Connie Marrero should be worth 25 games this year, and Jackie Jensen and Mickey Vernon can still...
...chancy movie business, a producer without distribution is like a camera without film. Ever since it was set up in 1919 by Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith, United Artists has been a distributing outlet for independent moviemakers. It permitted them to break away from the domination of the big studios and take a chance making their own movies...