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Meanwhile, the counter-counter-revolutionaries hatched a plot to have their cake, eat it too, and pinch a few of Skouras' box-office cookies into the bargain. Each announced, in portentous succession, that after years of arduous research it had developed at last its own wide-screen system-with "stereophonic sound." Paramount came out with Paravision, to be shown on a screen 1.66 times as wide as it is high (as compared with 1.33 to 1 for the traditional screen and 2.66 to 1 for CinemaScope). Metro sedately favored 1.75 to 1, and Universal went...
...fourth-inning Crimson tally "sealed" the game again, but Cornell touched Groper for three hits (without a run) in the sixth, and two runs on a line triple by Tony Giarrusse in the seventh. With the tying run on third and only one out, however, Groper induced pinch-hitter Holden Hostage to tap back to the box, and then struck out Jim Craig, who had previously hit safely four times...
Yardling coach Adolph Samborski practically cleaned his bench, throwing pinch-hitters and base-runners into the game in the last of the ninth. Rightfielder Bob Gobelein's grounder drove in the first run, following three Crimson walks. Then, with two out, Bill Cleary and John Maher smacked back-to-back hits to tie up the score. Getch iced...
...Pinch-Hit Double. Joe may occasionally mispronounce the players' names (he calls Yogi Berra "Berry"), but he has an encyclopedic memory for baseball statistics and stories. He says that he did not get into show business until he was nine but he was a confirmed baseball fan at four. Though he made a living as a circus aerialist in his teens, Joe spent each summer playing semi-pro and minor-league baseball. In 1920 his friend Ed Barrow, manager of the Boston Red Sox, let Joe pinch-hit for Outfielder Harry Hooper in an exhibition game. In what...
Dartmouth scored its first run in the third inning, when John Mansfield singled to right and came home on Don Swanson's double to right center. The loser's picked up their other tally in the seventh. On two walks and pinch hitter Dick Major's single...