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FIRST BASEMAN BILL TERRY (195 votes). Gruff, outspoken Bill Terry, 19 years with the. New York Giants as player and manager (three penants), was the last National Leaguer to hit over .400 (.401 in 1930), and finally racked up his bat with a brilliant lifetime average of .341, fourth highest in modern baseball history, after Rogers Hornsby, Harry Heilmann and Babe Ruth. Gruffed Bill Terry, 55, now a well-heeled Jacksonville, Fla. Buick dealer: "I have nothing to say about...
Since Escapade is such an unsatisfying combination of silly plot and sledge hammer dialogue, the cast can be praised for just keeping the audience in the theatre until the final curtain. Roger Livesey and Ursula Jeans, as the distraught parents, are well together; his gruff and her grace are both engaging. Melville Cooper is excellent in the last scene when his stock, pompous headmaster reveals his individuality...
Backed by his ambitious and unpopular vice president, Clark Frasier, Geographer Freeman ordered his professors around as they had never been ordered around before. A gruff, stubborn man, he refused to listen to their complaints, once bluntly told them to stop flunking students lest enrollment drop. As the months passed, professors began to seethe. But it was not until they hit upon the strange case of the athletic director's unearned M.Ed, that they openly revolted...
...House Government Operations Committee, touched off the outbursts at a committee meeting last week by having a recording machine and microphones placed on the table. His purpose, he explained afterwards, was "to show them how they sounded all cackling at once." Committee members, who are as fond of gruff, gritty Chairman Hoffman as he is of cackling, got very sore. After a flurry of angry protest Holifield made a motion that the machine be turned off, and the vote went 20-3 in favor. "Pull the plug," said Hoffman sourly...
...bedtime story, the three Billy Goats Gruff wanted to cross a bridge to a tempting green pasture, but were stopped by the troll who lurked underneath. Last week Speaker Joe Martin and his congressional captains looked longingly at the pasture labeled excess profits tax extension, where a succulent $800 million in revenues lies waiting. The President had insisted that Congress extend EPT for six months from its July 1 expiration in order to keep up sagging revenues. But extension depended largely on the attitude of the Ways & Means Committee, and guarding the committee was a gruff old troll named...