Word: pattiness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outstanding in the coast Guard lineup were third baseman Friend, who hit for the circuit twice, shortstop patti, and the battery of Merritt and Harr. For the Crimson, Chapple stood out with two hits and a couple of pretty fielding plays. Crimson right-fielder capaccio got the first hit of the game in the third on a line drive that bounced just inside the left foul line and went for a double. Webby Durant, up from the B-team, had a sharp single to right in three trips...
...greatest fault in this week's show is a woeful lack of music. True, there is an abundance of the lush tunes of Mr. Kern, but even the music of that able composer must suffer when there are no voices to do it justice. Miss Patti Pickens, the star, struggles bravely, but is unable to make much headway against a cast of non-singers, attempting to talk the tunes...
...Angels are four sisters of that name in Glenby Falls, N.Y. They want to help their widowed father buy a farm where he can indulge his passion for raising soybeans. Nancy Angel (Dorothy Lamour) wants to be an artist, Bobby (Betty Hutton) an ace reporter, Patti (Mimi Chandler) a Shakespearean actress, Josie (Diana Lynn) a composer. Between daydreams and quarrels they pick up spare cash by staging musical acts at a local roadhouse. There they run afoul of a transient bandleader, Happy Marshall (Fred MacMurray), who promptly advises Cinemactress Lamour: "Let's not fight this thing...
...recalled them the way a seaman recalls far ports of the earth. Henry Ward Beecher he remembered as a "just ordinary" player. Robert G. Ingersoll and Charles A. Dana were fair amateurs. Mark Twain was "a good fair amateur." Slosson also gave billiard lessons to famed soprano Adelina Patti...
...touch the Coast Guard hurler. Sorgi's hit figured in an abortive attempt at a score in the last of the sixth. After singling to right, he was advanced when Clark walked, but was thrown out at the plate when Jack Gale pounded a ground ball to third baseman Patti. Other than that little flurry, the Crimson never threatened...