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This grabber is the lead-off speech of Lawrence Durrell's new play, An Irish Faustus, which is playing at Hamburg's Deutsches Schauspielhaus...
...majority of Crimson hits this year have begun off the bats of second baseman Terry Bartolet (.351), center-fielder Gavin Gilmor (.338) and shortstop Tom Bilodeau (.302). Lead-off hitter Curly Combs (.299) has had some big games, and considerable power resides in the wrists of first baseman Tom Stephenson (.288), and speedy, All-America hopeful catcher Dick Diehl...
...most men; it is a basic and irreplaceable text for modern surgeons. But Moore is still enlarging the dimensions of his monument. W. B. Saunders Co. has just published The Body Cell Mass and Its Supporting Environment (helpfully subtitled "Body Composition in Health and Disease"), with Dr. Moore as lead-off man among the six coauthors...
...ball game was in the 13th inning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers were still locked tight in a 3-3 tie with the Houston Colts. In the Dodger dugout. Manager Walt Alston issued crisp orders to his lead-off batter, Shortstop Maurice Morning Wills...
Star Billing. Besides coping with the opposition to his bill, President Kennedy had to deal with a trade-bill crisis within his own Administration team. Before the Ways and Means hearings started, a skirmish broke out over who was going to get star billing as the lead-off Administration witness. Under Secretary of State George W. Ball, the principal framer of the bill, wanted to be the chief witness. But the Ways and Means Committee's Chairman Wilbur D. Mills, a staunch friend of the bill, wanted the Administration to lead off with Commerce Secretary Hodges. Mills...