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Television, according to broadcasters, is intrinsically educational. It broadens young minds and uplifts old ones. Last week a plausible footnote to this plausible theory came from English Instructor Ralph S. Graber of Pennsylvania's Muhlenberg College. TV may open all sorts of vistas, Graber reports, but the quality of its teaching is dubious. The effect on his students, he avers, is "a marked increase in the number of malapropisms and errors in diction...
...back the string with both hands and sent a 25-in. fir-and-pine arrow whiffling into the sun. When bug-eyed officials at the 75th annual tournament of the National Archery Association finally found Lamore's arrow 937.13 yds. away, they discovered that he had broken the old N.A.A. record for distance flight by nearly 50 yds. But Lamore, one of 1,000,000 toxophilites in the booming sport of archery, was just warming up. Half an hour later, using a 130-lb. hand bow, he fired an arrow 850.67 yds. to break the N.A.A. mark...
...Yankees' eight-year-old rightfielder couldn't help it. After all, Harry Murphy was pitching for the Braves. Maybe Murph was only ten, but Murph already weighed no Ibs., and was 5 ft. 2 in. tall. And when Murph scowled and bit his tongue and threw his submarine ball, everyone knew that he was just as fast as most of the big kids in town. Still, the eight-year-old managed to stand up at the plate and take his three cuts, even though all the kids and parents in the park could tell only too well that...
...guards to absorb the force of any errant fastball. Not only did Murph win all eight of his games of five innings each, but he struck out 108 to account for all but twelve outs, allowed only 18 hits. Although Murph has unusually sharp control for a ten-year-old (only eleven walks), he did skull one batter. "That kid throws too hard," cried one irate parent. "He scares these poor kids to death...
...semi-pro pitcher, Murph himself explains: "I just throw as hard as I can. I figure if I let up, someone might hit it." And being hit is the one thing Murph has not been able to stand since he pitched his first game as a seven-year-old and lost, 44-1. Says Mrs. Murphy: "Those people that complain didn't see him when he used to cry because he couldn't keep the batters from hitting...