Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Organized & Dull. In defense and foreign policy there is a similar contrast between the Republican product and the Republican sales pitch. A recent Gallup poll shows that 64% of U.S. voters feel that the defense position of the U.S. is better now than it was under the Truman Administration. The Republican campaign has done little to capitalize on this highly favorable voter conclusion...
...Beagle's attempts as the Indian ace completed ten of 15 for a total of 136 yards. The varsity, mean-while, surprised the large crowd of 32,000 by trying 22 passes; it completed seven for a total of 106-yards--36 of this total coming on a long pitch from Phil Haughey to Bob Cochran, Dartmouth was able, however, to take advantage of three interceptions, while the Crimson falled to intercept any of Beagle's passes. Beagle called a surprisingly conservative game, rarely passing in his own territory. Despite the superiority of Harvard's line he used line plays...
...campaign along Eisenhower Republican lines. He points out that the Eisenhower Administration has lived up to its mandate by ending the Korean war and averting a peacetime depression. He argues that employment is up 4% over 1949, the last peacetime year of the Truman Administration. Warburton's Eisenhower pitch is solid; he had an excellent pro-Ike voting record in the House...
...with his back to home plate and save the ball game. In the tenth, the score tied 2-2 and two men on, Durocher called on "Dusty" Rhodes, his first-rate, second-string outfielder, who had been a sensational pinch hitter all season. Dusty Rhodes popped the first pitch into a lazy arc along the rightfield foul line, and a light breeze wafted it over the high green grandstand barrier for a home run that broke up the game...
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...