Word: lead-off
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Morning after the invasion of Poland, the lead-off Woman's Page story in London's high-class big-circulation Daily Telegraph was headlined UNDERWEAR, ran as follows...
Bill Stickel will hit with the best of them from his first base spot, and lead-off man Murphy is at second. Sid Luckman has the inside track for short, but Hal Naidus is making him work for the job. Veteran Poto Lambert rounds out the infield at third, and the catcher is Desmond...
Charley Brackett, who has just left the infirmary, will be on the mound for the Freshmen. Leo Hartstone is the lead-off man and Chuck Davis occupies the clean-up spot...
...toppling, 5,000 Chicagoans one night last week braved an April blizzard to watch the kegling of the local Birk Brothers (Superb Beer) quintet, which had won almost every tournament in the Midwest this year. Birk Brothers had won the A.B.C. title once-in 1917, with the same lead-off man, Policeman George Geiser, and the same anchor man, Lawyer Jules Lellinger, both of whom have been bowling for Superb Beer for a quarter of a century. Neither had ever posted a perfect game; but the other three members of the team-Leo Krisch, George Notz and Joe Traubenik...
...second National Book Fair, the Herald-Traveler its first Boston Book Fair. The Manhattan show, held on the 38th and 39th floors of the International Building in Rockefeller Center, could claim such celebrities as Fannie Hurst, Emil Ludwig and Pearl Buck. The Boston Fair had H. G. Wells as lead-off man, with Robert Frost...