Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...example of farcical comedy, Ruddigore offers wonderful opportunities. Mij Gohr and her cast recognized what had to be done, and turned the Gilbert and Sullivan opera into one of the finest shows of its type to hit Cambridge in a long time...
Three walks, a sacrifice hit and a tworun scoring bloop double for Nichols in the eighth inning spelled Crimson defeat for the first time this season. Jim Congleton relieved Hoffman and was the victim of the banjo blow. The JV's next game is against Quonset Navel Station tomorrow...
...Navy does not expect to have its cockpit perfected before 1958, and it does not expect it to solve all problems, such as an enemy hit on the cockpit itself. "In many cases, however," says Douglas Engineer Albert Mayo, "it will enable the pilot to survive. It will not guarantee him a comfortable bailout, and if the jet is headed earthward at Mach 2 and 6,000 ft. off the deck, nothing can save...
...start last week in cold, dank weather. There were rookies in almost every lineup, but it was the big-name pros who provided the heat. Philadelphia's Robin Roberts, hoping to win 20 games for the seventh straight year, pitched a typical Robertsian game, was slammed for nine hits, five for extra bases, yet beat the Dodgers 8-6. The Giants' Willie Mays performed some run-scoring aggression at home plate (see cut), personally accounted for the winning run over Pittsburgh, did the same the following day. The Cardinals' Stan Musial hit a home run to beat...
...career and life of the great Yankee first baseman, but unfortunately, the TV treatment was strictly soap opera. NBC got in another plug for the national pastime with Salute to Baseball, which made a couple of daring moves by putting Yogi Berra in a ballet from the Broadway hit, Damn Yankees (he uneasily swung a bat while dancers pranced about him), and Molly Goldberg in a locker room (she clucked at the sight of baseball spikes: "Look at the poor boys' shoes-the nails are coming through the soles...