Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Starting pitcher Byron Johnson was never in real trouble. He gained the win, pitching eight innings and allowing eight Brandeis hits...
Then followed the most bizarre play of the game. Pinch-hitter Dave Borken-hagen tapped a grounder to short. The shortstop threw high to second, missing the force play; the second baseman over-threw first trying to make the out there; and finally the pitcher, who retrieved the ball, threw wide to the plate trying to catch Hathaway, and even Borken-hagen scored on this final error...
...last five years-which I consider to be the most significant architecture I have done-can be directly attributed to my happy marriage. I was on a creative plateau for several years preceding my marriage." One mark of Stone's affection: in 1954 he threw away the martini pitcher that had dogged him since college days, has sat firmly on the wagon ever since...
MARY CURTIS-VERNA, 30, a tall (5 ft. 7 in.), Massachusetts-born dramatic soprano, has become the Metropolitan's most highly publicized relief aria-pitcher in the year since she joined the company. Three times this season she substituted for ailing divas in starring roles (once, on three hours' notice and without rehearsal, she sang Donna Anna when Eleanor Steber fell ill), while maintaining her own schedule of Toscas, Leonoras and Aïdas. Unfortunately, there is more drama in her last-minute appearances offstage than on: her singing, often attractive enough, has little spark, often wins only...
...handsome, brown-eyed man with a deep voice, Brann first hit Waco at the age of 39 after an odyssey that began in rural Illinois. He went to work as a bellhop when he was 13. By 21, he had been a painter, freight-train fireman, brakeman, baseball pitcher and manager of an opera company. Then, educating himself as he went along, he worked on newspapers in St. Louis, Galveston, Houston, Austin and San Antonio. In Austin, his first attempt to run his own paper foundered...