Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles Dodgers stumbled through their first home stand last week, Smith's amiable hyperbole was borne out by the remorseless arithmetic of the score card. The looming left-field screen that was supposed to turn Memorial Coliseum into a big-league ballpark (TIME, April 28) had become the biggest boon to batters since the rabbit ball. At the end of eight home games, 26 homers had got lost on the far side of the screen only 250 ft. away...
...week's end, the Dodgers were far back in sixth place. But so many fans turned out to watch the homers soar over the left-field screen that when they beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 5-3, the Dodgers drew the largest crowd ever to watch a National League night game (60,635). With all those paying guests, the Dodgers could well afford the modest cost ($2 apiece) of all those lost balls...
...first half, when the Crimson led, 7 to 1. Dick Parks opened the scoring at 1:50 of the first period with a hard, low shot that escaped the goalie. After a Brown attackman batted an errant rebound past MacKinnon at 7:27, Nick Lamont scooped up a screen shot by Charlie Devens and scored. Devens, who took the place of Karl Bjork on the first midfield, played a fine game for a man who started the season on the fourth midfield...
After the plot is finally straightened out, Producer Douglas Fairbanks Jr., unable to resist hamming up his own road show, dashes onto the screen and swears the audience to secrecy. But by that time, even Director Michael (Around the World in 80 Days) Anderson does not seem to care one peseta's worth...
Uncomibird with Education. In Texarkana, Tex., the Gazette gave a spelling test to screen job applicants (sample answers: mislanison for miscellaneous, axsesserys for accessories, vacon for vacuum, uncomibird for unencumbered), found just one person who could make a perfect score: a 45-year-old housewife with an eighth-grade education...