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...Armstrong, tall Floridan, rounds out the starting outfield. Armstrong the only junior on the first team, has speed and an accurate peg...
...Terriers threatened in the sixth, but a fine peg from Canepa to catcher Chuck Wade cut off the potential score...
Efficient Edith Helm, White House social secretary, was momentarily nonplussed. At a press conference someone said he had heard that Bess Truman "used to beat even the boys at mumblety-peg when she was a child in Independence. She used to pull the peg out with her teeth, too." Quickly rallying, Mrs. Helm replied: "That's an esoteric rite of the player. I used to play it myself...
...small clearing the expedition found three deserted straw shacks. On a table in one rested a freshly cut papaya. In another coolie clothes hung on a peg. Chickens scratched in a tiny garden patch. As they pulled away, the French tossed a grenade into a frail native dugout on the riverbank; it disappeared in an upheaval of water and swamp hyacinth. "It's hard on people who live here," explained an officer, "but if we leave their craft, the Viet Minh use them for moving ammunition and supplies. Small boats are the transport of this battle ground...
...plays the expected ones too, but only on request or by whim. "Peg O' My Heart" got a scornful but amazingly inventive treatment the night I last heard Sutton, while a private joke with clarinetist peanuts Hucko produced a "Sugar Blues" that laughed at Duchin and Peewee Hunt but wound up with three choruses that were all Sutton, joke or no joke...