Word: ll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lead-off hitter is to get on base; Second Baseman Stanky gets there more often than most without having to get a hit. In a game with the Pittsburgh Pirates two weeks ago, he drew three walks. Fourth time up he announced: "I'll make 'em walk me again." Then he went into his dance. While Pitcher Johnny Lanning tried to find the plate, Brooklyn's brat writhed, wiggled, squatted and crowded the plate. Umpire George Barr ordered Stanky to get back in the batter's box and behave. When the count got to three balls...
...taking ads. PM no longer argued that ads were sinister ("most people like to read ads"), but only that its press equipment was not up to expanding to an ad-filled paper. Just give him a few hundred thousand more nickels a day, pleaded crusader Ingersoll, and he'll not only put out a bigger and better PM-he'll build up a whole chain of them...
Died. General Jorge Ubico, 67, Guatemala's efficient, undersized, Napoleon-complexed dictator-President (1931-44), who balanced the budget and produced a little but not too much prosperity ("If the people have money they'll kick me out"), and was fond of showing his boxing prowess by beating up his Cabinet members (with armed guards present); after long illness; in New Orleans...
...buzzing over what a headwaiter told the Duke of Windsor. . . . Stalin isn't sick. . . . Insiders say he has been dead 44 years. . . . King Farouk of Egypt wears a fez. . . . Betty Grable quitting the flicks to go into politics. . . . Bilbo quitting politics to go into the movies. . . . He'll play the title role in a revival of The Klansman. . . . Winston Churchill likes cigars. . . . Get Gandhi to tell you what he said to Nehru. . . . What Hollywood biggie dropped $40,000 in a floating crap game last night? . . . Shepheard's Hotel has an 'a' in it. . . . Prices have...
...course, downright sensational. The long, low whistles she inspires in all the male members of the cast are the most realistic part of the entire picture. Once her glasses are off, Maureen's only real problem is making up her mind which lovesick suitor she'll marry...