Word: recruits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this year than last. Campanella, Hodges, Furillo, Reese and Cox all finished with lower batting averages than in 1951. Home-run production dropped from 184 to 153, and ace Pitcher Don Newcombe was drafted. But the Dodgers had an exceedingly valuable newcomer: Relief Pitcher Joe Black (15-4), Negro recruit to organized baseball who propped up a shaky pitching staff, was voted "National League Rookie of the Year" (TIME, Sept...
...tour was the idea of Britain's John Coast. He was a P.W. in southeast Asia during the war, later married a Javanese girl and settled in Bali to write (Recruit to Revolution) and to organize a troupe of dancers. His wife Supianti is assistant producer, costume designer and "mother" to the cast's nine girls. They will take the troupe from Boston to Washington late this month and from Cleveland to Los Angeles later this year. As for Manhattan, it has bought up tickets so fast that the Balinese have agreed to come back for two additional...
Editor Wallace got them to sign a pledge not to make advertising hay of the Digest's approval, but he let them use his letter to recruit dealers because "we . . . want any recommended product to be available in the stores...
None of the squads was at full strength, with labs and afternoon classes cutting down attendance. All Houses will be allowed to recruit--residents only, that is,--until October 2. The round-robin schedule opens October 8, with each squad slated for seven games...
Generals may run the army, but the authority felt by the harried recruit is the rasping voice of the sergeant. Like many another veteran who has heard that voice too often, Dr. Burgess L. Gordon, Philadelphia chest specialist and onetime army colonel, is convinced that sergeants are really bad medicine...