Word: hatten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hatten's Curve...
...often as his famous father, was trying to catch the Cardinals' Ray Sanders off first base. But the rookies expected to shine brightest were two boys with the same name, but different ways of spelling it: stumpy Grady ("Hoss") Hatton of the Cincinnati Reds and screwball Joe Hatten of the Brooklyn Dodgers...
Pitcher Joe Hatten, a 28-year-old southpaw, looks like the nearest thing to a freshman Dizzy Dean. He has a deadly sidearm motion that should baffle right-handed hitters, has a curve ball that can turn a corner. The Dodgers thought enough of him before he entered the Navy to give up a seasoned pitcher, Van Lingle Mungo, in a straight trade. Like most southpaws, Hatten is regarded with some suspicion as a wild man. Already some tall stories are being told about him. Sample: once when his team was just one run ahead at Minneapolis, he deliberately walked...
...threat to her beloved Strasbourg increased from day to day. At Gambsheim, eleven miles north of Strasbourg, the Germans beefed up their bridgehead with men and tanks from across the Rhine. From it, they struck north, west and south. On the north, they joined with other Nazi units attacking Hatten-a village whose shell-torn, fire-blackened ruins had been fought over for more than a week-and thus established a front from Gambsheim clear across to the Lorraine salient south of Bitche. The blow to the west drove the U.S. Seventh Army back five miles. Then the Germans shoved...
Uncle Harry (by Thomas Job; produced by Clifford Hayman in association with Lennie Hatten) is a Grade-B thriller-which, in the present sad state of Broadway, makes it one of the notable events of the spring season. Overlengthy dialogue makes the play move too slowly, overmuch plot makes it run too long. With more work (on the author's part) and less play, Uncle Harry might have come closer to being a first-rate psychological thriller; it contains a sound idea, clever characterizations, some skillful writing, and a neatly ironic tone...