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...pitchers worked leisurely, heading McInnis' advice to "take it easy until your arms are in shape. I won't begin to look you over until next week." Among the 19 pitchers who turned out were Ira Godin, mainstay of last spring's mound staff, who pitched a two-hit victory over Yale; Barry Turner, number two starter last year; Ralph Hymans, who saw mostly relief action; and Landon Clay, star twirler on last year's jayvee nine...
While at College, Adam was the team's mainstay. Although he lacked natural athletic ability, he made up for that by really using his head all the time. "Every shot had a purpose," Barnaby recalls...
...pair of sophomores, Joe Kittredge and Phil Clark were outstanding for the Crimson. Third line mainstay Kittredge scored three times, twice in the wild final period, to pace the team in that department, and goalie Clark made some thirty saves, four of which were impossible...
Even the girls, who used to be the mainstay of the humanities, are going in more for home economics and the newer vocational majors (recreation, social work). Meg Rothermel, the 1948 Sweetheart of Sigma Chi, is planning to be a social worker. Dean of Women Louise Troxell finds girls much franker and surer about what they go to college for these days: "To get a job, and a husband, and very possibly both...
...completely fictional character he is," wrote Sagendorph, "but . . . frankly, Abe Weatherwise is a mainstay around the office." The Almanac had left Abe's forecasts out just once, in 1938: sales flopped, subscribers howled, and it will never happen again...