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...Jeez! Jeez! Across the U.S. last week, the seesaw race had baseball fans quivering. Cleveland motorists had to wait for their gasoline until absent-minded attendants finished listening to another play on their radios; business in downtown movie houses slumped 25%. In Boston, scalpers asked and got as much as $30 for a pair of tickets. One New Yorker, his nose buried in the box scores, tripped over a fire hydrant and banged his head hard enough to need stitches...
...line-up last week and lost a game, there were public mutterings that maybe Club President Bill Veeck should have fired him last year, after all. One afternoon Boudreau sat listening to a broadcast of a Boston Red Sox game. He raked his hair with his fingers and exclaimed, "Jeez! Jeez!" every time the Sox scored. The Sox, under square-jawed Manager Joe McCarthy, seemed a shade less panicky. They had power to burn-what they prayed for was pitchers able to last nine innings. This week, with only five games to go, Cleveland edged one big game ahead...
Hulking, tough-talking Slim (for what he used to be) Lynch, 47, has found his new job no soft touch: "Jeez, I got so I could take the pictures they sent me out on with my eyes closed. This, brother, is different. Writing is damn hard work...
...bread-&-butter calls by buzzing the house. As a favor, the Army flew him across the U.S. in a jolting 6-24, to give him the feel of it. He can "still hear the nyaaa-aaaa-aaaa of those motors-and feel the cold, going on hour after hour. Jeez, it was cold...
Sitting in the boardinghouse with his landlady, Mrs. Myrtle Williams, last week, old John L. Black seemed only intermittently aware of his sudden affluence. "Jeez, nineteen thousand dollars!" he muttered. "Hear that, Myrtle? Now we can go on a hell of a bender...