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...error in the eight brought Ed Skribiski home with the fourth UMass tally, and Harvard loaded the bases in the month only to come-up runless...

Author: By Bill Scheft, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: UMass Spoils Keyte's Five-Hitter, 4-1 | 4/5/1979 | See Source »

...seemed in command. With the incomparable Clemente leading the way (a triple, an opposite-field home run in his first two at-bats), the Bucs jumped off to an early 2-0 lead. Pirate Starter Bob Moose effectively clipped the Oriole wings through five innings, extending the Birds' runless skein to 22 innings. Then Baltimore Leftfielder Don Buford drilled a home run in the sixth. The Orioles tied the game on two singles in the seventh, and it stayed tied until the tenth. With one out, Frank Robinson walked, raced from first to third on Merv Rettenmund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bucs and Birds Battle It Out | 10/25/1971 | See Source »

...things irritate a woman more-or more frequently-than a run in her stocking. But women have been forced to live with their runs for the sake of fashion sheerness-and the perishability of hose is the boon of manufacturers. Runless stockings have been developed, but few women like the seams that come with them. Last week this feminine plague at last seemed on its way out. Two hosiery companies are racing neck and neck to be first on the market with stockings that are both seamless and runproof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Sheer Delight | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

...smiling when he said it; though a new knitting process makes the stockings runproof, it does not make them holeproof. Said a Hanes executive cheerfully: "No stocking lasts forever." "Foreva" is, in fact, the name announced by Chadbourn Gotham Inc., Hanes's competitor, for its new runless and seamless stockings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Sheer Delight | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

...venture. He maintains that advertisers err in shying from a give-away circulation. "Billboards, car cards and the radio give free circulation, don't they?'' Last week he was delighted that his publication was one of four picked by Gotham Hosiery for its new runless stocking campaign. Circulation last week was 350,000. Editor Evans hopes to increase it to 3,000,000, distribute his journal through 15,000 stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Graduates of Life | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

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