Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...transport with a fat roll that he has picked up running a joint in Hawaii. But this time the Pendleton is carrying combat veterans as well as the scraped-barrel group of the outward voyage. When Raditzer is caught cheating in a below-decks poker game, they decide to pitch him overboard. In a scene that is brutal and powerfully true, Charlie Stark as his protector is tried as Raditzer has not tried him before. And from there to the powerful ending, Stark suffers the agonies of a man who has tied himself unwillingly, irrevocably, to a wretched fellow human...
...Helluva Baby." Kennedy got right down to his pitch: he wanted top men for the costly top embassy jobs, and did not want to settle simply for amateurs with private means. Without changing the law, he wanted assurances that his choices could get financial help if they needed it. Unmoved, Rooney pointed up his familiar examples of embassy waste, got agreement from Kennedy that there was room for tightening...
...current U.S. and Wimbledon Singles champion. Though he has never let training interfere with his smoking or partying, on the court Fraser has no real weakness except a tendency to let his mind wander. Before each match Fraser is carefully coaxed to the proper mental pitch by famed Aussie Davis Cup Captain Harry Hopman...
...letter to the CRIMSON bringing together three of this fall's contestants eight years ahead of time, Landis criticized Lodge's absenteeism and endorsement of McCarthy, also referring to his "happy acceptance of Dick Nixon's praise on platforms throughout Massachusetts." As his final pitch for Kennedy, Landis quoted a statement by Adlai Stevenson that "I shall need men like Kennedy in Washington. He is the kind of man I can work with...
Died. Arthur Nehf, 68, mild-mannered lefthander who helped pitch John McGraw's New York Giants to four National League pennants in a row (1921-24); of cancer; in Phoenix, Ariz...