Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago.Cubs had lost five games in a row when the team's rangy Negro shortstop set to work one day last week against the Philadelphia Phillies. The score was 2-2 in the sixth as Ernie Banks. 27. stepped into the batter's box. He stared stoically while the Phillies' Lefthander Curt Simmons wound up. then whipped around his light (31 oz.) bat like a willow switch. Rising steadily, the ball whistled out of Chicago's Wrigley Field to ricochet crazily through the neighborhood beyond. And the cumbersome Cubs were finally on their way to winning...
Because only about half of Columbia is numbed by the drumming, a furious row commences. The city's ladies fume about Miss Mizzou's putative lack of underclothes, while the C. of C. retorts that nothing has ever been proved in that respect. To critics who question the whole project, the C. of C. men reply that it has great publicity value but give no clear notion of what the publicity is for or what they are selling. The city council hears more arguments, schedules a final meeting for next week to decide whether Missouri's teams...
...midnight on Oct. 22, 1942, Clark's submarine spotted a flickering light on an Algerian coastal bluff. It was the signal to row ashore, that the way was clear. W'hen Clark and his team reached shore, Bob Murphy was on hand to greet them: "Welcome to North Africa." That day, in a red-roofed villa on the road to Algiers. Clark and Murphy ate bread, jam and sardines, plotted the North African invasion with French leaders brought by Murphy. Suddenly the telephone rang, followed by the cry: "The police will be here in a few minutes." Tipped...
Panting & Pantsless. That night, ready to row back to his submarine, Clark took off his trousers to prevent their getting soaked as he helped push his boat into the breakers. In his hurry, he left the trousers on the beach, arrived panting and pantsless on the sub. Three weeks later Clark got a package from Murphy: it contained his trousers, freshly cleaned and pressed. The result of the Clark expedition and Murphy's work: French collaboration made the Allied invasion immeasurably easier...
...Asher's blast was in the August Family Doctor, published by the British Medical Association. When London's medicos began to move to Harley Street in the 1880s (from Savile Row), each leading practitioner usually leased an entire house and lived over his consulting rooms. Today only a handful of top-drawer consultants-as the British prefer to call their specialists-can afford a whole house. (Dr. Asher himself occupies such a house in Wimpole Street, which parallels Harley in direction and character.) Result is most Harley doctors lease a suite of rooms...