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...Hastings opened the ninth-inning rally with a single. Dave McGarrity, pinch-hitting for Brigham, batted out another single, and then catcher Phil Haughey slammed a three-run homer to give the varsity a 5-4 lead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hathaway Hits Two Home Runs As Varsity Nine Beats Penn 6-5 | 5/16/1957 | See Source »

Although Dom Repetto appeared briefly in the Navy game as a pinch-hitter, he will probably be on the mound for the Crimson this afternoon, with Bob McGinnis an alternative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Baseball Squad to Face Underdog Boston College Today | 5/14/1957 | See Source »

...hull near the ship's stern (see diagram). They converge toward the propeller, and when the ship is in motion, the propeller sucks streams of water from both grooves. As the streams move together, they exert pressure on the wedge-shaped section of hull between them and "pinch" it forward, rather as a watermelon seed is pinched from between two fingers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pinch & Jet Ship | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

...Devil's General (Gyula Trebitsch; Stebbins). "In a pinch," says the German proverb, "the devil eats flies." But how did he ever manage, in the puny form of Adolf Hitler, to gobble up all those meaty burghers of the German middle class? How could so many "good Germans" have been so bad? This picture, based on a play by Carl (The Blue Angel) Zuckmayer and magnificently directed by Helmut Käutner (The Captain of Köpenick), gives an answer that apparently satisfies the Germans. Made in Hamburg in 1955, the movie has been running for 18 months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 13, 1957 | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

...Crimson scored twice in the sixth on a walk, a double by Haughey, a ground out and Smith's second wild pitch. Pinch hitters George McGarrity and Dom Repetto each singled to drive in the final Crimson scores in the ninth...

Author: By James S. Eilberg, | Title: Strong Navy Nine Defeats Crimson 12-6 | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

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