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...additions bring the normal capacity of the catalog to five million cards, but library officials note "we can squeeze in another million in a pinch...
Pitcher Johnny Antonelli and pinch-hitting Dusty Rhodes shared the World Series spotlight yesterday as the Giants won the second straight game, 3 to 1. After Cleveland's Al Smith homebred on the first pitch of the game, Antonelli shut out the Indians, striking out nine and leaving 13 men on base. Rhodes drove in the tying run in the fifth...
...YORK, Sept. 29--Dusty Rhodes' 270-foot pinch home run with two men on base in the tenth inning won the World Series opener for the New York Giants today, 5 to 2, over the Cleveland Indians...
...sighs and dazzling sunbursts. The second (Dies Irae) begins with an insistent, plodding motif in the chorus, building up to a breakoff point when the four brass bands join in. At the work's first performance (so Berlioz claimed), the conductor stopped at that point and had a pinch of snuff, while Berlioz himself leaped to the podium to save the performance. Conductor Munch last week took no chance on faulty entrances, had his warning arm pointing straight toward heaven four bars ahead. The brass bands broke loose (two were placed in the auditorium, giving a kind of stereophonic...
...cumulative effect is poignant and powerful. A wisp of a girl in a chemical plant manned by forced labor is raped by the foreman, goes mad, and hangs herself. Gurgling with vodka, the fat cats of the Rostov central committee storm the local ballet school, and as they pinch and paw the trembling girls, tell them the facts of Soviet life: "The Government keeps you, pays you, looks after you without end. Now you're going to pay some of it back...