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Vince Moravec will got the nod from Samborski tomorrow if his arm is in shape. Moravec pitched against Squantum last Monday and had to be pulled at the end of the fifth inning when he developed a sore arm. If Vince's whip is not in shape, Samborski's alternate choice will be either Seymour Croft or Crawford Hubbell. Croft pitched the last two innings of Monday's game and turned in a very workmanlike performance allowing only one run and two hits...
...week, Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley, ruffled as a wet hen over Harry Truman's rejection of his advice on the OPA bill, stiffly snubbed the President's overture of friendship. For Harry Truman's pat on his arm, the Kentucky Senator had only a formal nod...
Last week Tom Sawyer's amiable hocus-pocus got a nod of approval from a scientific quarter. Said Dr. Hermann Vollmer of New York in the current Psychosomatic Medicine: suggestion is "at least as effective" a cure for warts as X ray or surgery. He documented his case with the findings of French, German and Swiss dermatologists, outlined his own experiments with over 100 children...
With a few words, a knowing nod and a confidential elbow-push in the stomach, he convinced many a jittery second-rater that he was really a wildcat. His persuasiveness worked the other way, too. Johnston once whispered to mighty Jess Willard: "Jess, you killed a man in your last fight. . . . I just thought I'd warn you, my boy has a bad heart...
When human beings finally came to realize that their masks fooled nobody but themselves, their disillusionment had a new creative result. Naturalistic masks like the Museum's Tibetan Comic Monk (see cut) and Japanese No masks, whose expression could be altered with a nod, were put to use in stage plays...