Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago Showman Gebhard set up his pitch in Cleveland's old Prentiss mansion on Euclid Avenue. Since then, abetted by a weekly radio program and sideshows in bank lobbies, schools, settlement houses, factory lunchrooms, the doctor has succeeded in making Clevelanders exceedingly health-conscious. Last week he made a splash in a bigger puddle: his Health Museum launched its first class for "interns" - 29 graduate students from North Carolina's School of Public Health, who will teach health the Gebhard way in the U.S., Peru, China...
...thrill of the game between the fourth and sixth platoon last week came when Scotty Hodges stretched a three-bagger into a home run to aid "Strikeout" Hillger pitch the fourth to a nine to six victory...
Bill Judge will take the mound today in an attempt to pitch the Crimson baseball forces' to their second win of the season as the Stahlmen take on a strong Boston Coast Guard nine at Soldiers Field...
...astonishment of the Army, he married. His wife was pretty, dark-haired Mary Frances Robinson of El Paso. They have a son, Terry Jr., 14, with whom Terry Sr. delights in riding and playing tennis when he is at home. In 1932, Allen made another pitch for the future: he took a course in the Infantry School at Fort Benning. Lieut. Colonel George Catlett Marshall, now Chief of Staff, was assistant commandant, and the careless, casual Major Allen was one of the men whom Marshall marked down for later remembrance. Brainy, perceptive George Marshall sensed in Terry Allen a soldier...
This workman of the Chicago Musical Instrument Co. is putting the finishing touches on a plastic trumpet for Army buglers. The Army Quartermaster Corps has ordered 10,000. Plastic trumpets (made of tenite) sound as loudly as brass ones, are truer to pitch because they do not require warming up. The plastic instruments are also easier to blow, featherweight, can be made in any color, require no polishing, can be easily mended. Further, they do not reflect light, hence cannot reveal positions to the enemy. Last week Quartermaster Corps officials looked forward to a plastic age, from trumpets to tubas...