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...muff in the third game, Philly Shortstop Hamner, 23, inconsolably told himself he was the series goat. "I've made a lot of errors in my life," he said, "but that one . . ." Actually the series had no goat. It also produced no new towering heroes. The standouts, apart from the pitchers: aging (35) Joe DiMaggio, on his fielding and clutch hitting; quiet, self-effacing Yankee Second Baseman Jerry Coleman, 26, 1949's rookie-of-the-year, who figured in five of his team's six runs in the first three games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Romp | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

...went ahead again in the third inning without a hit. Al Piper walked, stole second and scored on a two base muff by Greeley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Varsity, Freshman Nines Lose to BU | 4/26/1950 | See Source »

...classmates at Harrow, George Macaulay Trevelyan seemed, as he himself tells it, like "a 'swot' of the worst kind . . . socially [a] misfit . . . a complete muff at cricket, and clumsy at football." He was "wrapped in literary and historical imaginings," and he was also a crashing bore. "I never had dreams of being a general, or a statesman or an engine-driver, like other aspiring children . . . I wanted to be [a] historian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Haunted Historian | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...undecided about the disposal of: a $3,000 diamond ring and a $1,000 star sapphire; a $2,500 diamond watch; a custom-built $1,000 kitchen ("If it's more modern than mine, I'll take it"); a $425 record library; an ermine jacket, hat and muff; a one-year scholarship to the Berkshire Hills girls school; a $2,850 trip to Paris and Monte Carlo ("I'd rather go somewheres else-like California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: The $35,250 Answer | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...done it? Said Anthony: "I got a zero in the first term. I was afraid to muff this exam. I figured my old man would beat hell outta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gunfire in Brooklyn | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

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