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...longest doubleheader (9hrs. 52 min.) in history, both to the San Francisco Giant, before 57,037 supersatiated fans-biggest crowed of the 1964 season-at New York's Shea Stadium. The first game was a regulation nine-inning affair, and the Giants won 5-3. But the nightcap went 23 innings before Catcher Del Crandall, only able-bodied man on the Giant roster (except pitchers) who had not yet played, drove in the winning run with a pinch double to give San Francisco an 8-6 victory...
Though it has not yet been proved, it seems likely that most predawn awakenings result from dreaming. The tensions of the day that a man carries to bed with him may be damped by a nightcap or pill, only to be reactivated by dreams after the first couple of hours, when sleep is deepest. It is in the study and explanation of dreaming that sleep scientists have recently made their most dramatic progress. The stuff that has been written about dreams would fill a library, and most of it makes as much sense as "such stuff as dreams are made...
Seems viewers with knitting or maybe nightcap Watched anything else, or just took
That night R. A. Butler faced his decision. He and his tearful wife Mollie returned to their suite at the ornate, Edwardian St. Ermin's Hotel. Some time between a Scotch nightcap and dawn, Politician Butler surveyed the situation with all his political acumen and concluded that he simply did not have sufficient support inside the party to carry through the rebellion. He also knew, as he told friends later, that either decision, to fight on or to quit, would be criticized, but he decided to give up rather than seriously damage the Tory Party...
...year-old Simpson goes sauntering, it is likely to turn into a bracing hike. He has done 37 miles at a stretch, would like to try a Kennedy 50. He is 5 ft. 7½ in. tall, weighs 170 Ibs., likes a martini before dinner and a nightcap of bourbon and water. He comes to his post with some knowledge of American girls, since in 1938 he married one, Mary McEldowney, onetime associate editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The Simpsons have two married daughters just into their 20s and a son, Rupert, 11. Simpson believes adamantly...