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...press greeted the 1947 Arboretum expedition with a flood of publicity and two different writers asked Merrill to "confirm" the following story: A Harvard-trained botanist in the Air Force was flying over the hump during the war when was forced to bail out over China. He landed unconscious, and when he recovered he found he was lying under a Metasequoia--"in other words his training at Harvard was so good that he knew all about the tree before botanists even knew the species," Merrill chuckled yesterday...
With the baseball season just over the midseason hump, the 1952 pennant races had a strangely familiar look. In the National League, the Brooklyn Dodgers had pulled 7½ games ahead of the faltering Giants, were racing along at a .728 clip (mainly by winning 38 out of 39 games from the second-division Pirates, Reds and Braves). In the American League, the New York Yankees, despite the loss of Joe DiMaggio and Second Baseman Jerry Coleman (recalled by the Marines), had stretched their lead to 4½ games over the Boston Red Sox. The league leaders at week...
...rather have "sponsored programs than a Socialist government," Baxter and other Tories voted reluctantly with their party, in favor of the white paper. They consoled themselves with the reflection that TV licenses will not be issued to private enterprisers until the long-term defense program is well over the hump. For the next five years at least, Britain's "mature and sophisticated" public seems safe from the blandishments of commercial plugs...
Nature's vagaries were not so simply faced in Australia. Monsoon, rains sweeping in from the Indian Ocean across the northern hump of Australia have created a rich patch of cattle-raising country about the size of Texas. But in the recent monsoon season (November to March), for the first time in living memory, the rains did not come. Not only the northern pasture land, but the whole top half of Australia began to dry up. Within six months there was hardly a blade of grass in an area the size of Western Europe...
Yale jumped off to a two run first inning lead when Andy Ward walked the first three batters he faced and Eli captain Phil Mathias hit a hump back single...