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...errant curve ball that Nettles didn't even glare back at the pitcher, Tom House. It was like that through the Yankee victory on Friday and the Bosox's recovery Sunday. Both teams clawed at each other like cats with manners, scoring in dribs and drabs and putting together scratch singles and errors most of the time, with the tension but not the screeching of Thursday. Saturday was a little different; the Catfish lived up to his price tag, scattering three hits in 11 innings before the Yankees finally broke through the sturdy pitching of Dick Pole and Tom House...
...intriguing aspect of the pickup in mergers and acquisitions is that black businessmen for the first time are playing a role. Until recently, many black entrepreneurs who could raise money had little experience and were forced to start their businesses from scratch in ghetto areas. As a result, the mortality rate of black-owned businesses has been high. Now, led by Manhattan's Citibank, moneymen are seeking out black entrepreneurs who have good management records and offering to finance their acquisition of successful, largely white-owned enterprises. Citibank recently helped blacks to take over a profitable Chicago margarine company...
Bartlett, who is currently a stalwart on the Crimson golf squad, had little notion of the Hagen mystique when he joined the caddy ranks at the age of fourteen and began to forge his near-scratch golf game. He received a guiding hand from club pro Sam Urzetta, an ex-caddy himself who won the U.S. Amateur crown in 1950 after a playoff with Frank Stranahan...
...Scratch a Schoolboy...
...time of that race my mother said she would never enter Forego in a match race, no matter what the purse, distance, or opponent, unless she could scratch Forego the day of the race," Gerry says. Gerry explains that scratching at the last minute in a big race is out of the question because, "you can't let the public down...