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...they hoped would take over Joe DiMaggio's American League center-field crown some day. This week, in an exhibition game, the Yankees' Joe and the Tigers' Johnny got together for the first time. DiMaggio, hobbling by on his sore heel, went to bat as a pinch hitter and drew a walk; Groth got a single in five times at bat, tossed out a Yankee at the plate with a good throw from center field. Did Groth look like an heir apparent? In spite of a mine-run performance that day, he handled himself with confidence...
Last summer, Capp pinch hit for Drew Pearson as commentator on "Washington Merry-go-round" while Pearson was vacationing. During that brief spell of radio work, Capp sensed and expressed resentment about sponsors' interference with broadcasts...
...most entertaining item in Signature is a story called "A Pinch in Time." An American riding in a Swiss railway carriage engages in conversation with the young lady seated opposite him. He hopes the stale cigar smoke left in the compartment by a previous passenger will not offend her. She mentions her disgust for men who try to pick her up; the American says nothing, but lights a discarded cigar butt and puffs furiously in her face. That's all there is to it; neat, and very effective...
...Welcker pinch hit for Owen Brewster, Republican Senator from Maine, who was kept from his scheduled speech at the Forum by the Senate filibuster debate. Seymour Harris '20, professor of Economics, served as moderator...
...Stalin's first assignments from Lenin was to weld together the bickering nationalities of the Caucasus, and it was then that Mikoyan became his henchman. In this stubborn problem, Mikoyan demonstrated that he could be politic, patient, persuasive and in a pinch-like all Bolsheviks-utterly merciless...