Word: nicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bart Harvey followed with a hard-hit bounding ball to right, the second hit of the day off DeMerritt. On the play Keyes rounded third and started for home but slid back to the base in the nick of time. Terrier third-baseman Thomas then rifled the ball back to first to catch Harvey off the bag, but the throw was low and went on through Poltrine. Keyes then scampered home with the winning...
...right-in 15 exhibition games he had batted .438, a better average than that of any other Yankee, including Batting Champion Joe Di Maggio. But the Scooter had a low number in the draft, had been examined at St. Petersburg, pronounced physically fit. Last week, in time's nick, Rizzuto's home-town draft board granted his request for deferment (because of dependents), gave the approaching baseball season the most spectacular rookie since Bob Feller...
TRAITOR'S PURSE-Margery Alllngham -Crime Club ($2). Daffy from a copper's clout, Albert Campion sheds his amnesia in time's nick, saves England from civil commotion. Present are Manservant Lugg and Lady Amanda Fritton, Campion's fiancee. Another of Margery Allingham's well-made, well-mannered British stories...
...front of the new post theatre the column swung to the left, up the steps. Inside, sergeants fell out, candidates took seats in the front rows in alphabetical order. Husky Master Gunnery Sergeant Nick Peschi, leaning on the rail in back of the theatre, watched his straight-backed students file down the aisle, looked around at his brother noncoms and grinned a satisfied grin...
...first is Bobby Hackett, who opened at the Versallies last Monday for an indefinite stay. He's fronting a local band, which unfortunately doesn't nearly measure up to the standard set by the combinations which played down at Nick's. Yet Bobby himself would be worth listening to if he were fronting the bagpipe contingent of the Cameron Highlanders. Besides this, when the band plays a "jump" tune, you can be sure it's nothing like the inneouous riff numbers which have been giving too many orchestras a trite style, and which have hampered any attempts at musical individually...