Word: setups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that it is these things that are making him leave the business. He says that he starved for two years with his original band idea of regular instrumentation plus string quartet--that he finally had to make some concession to public taste and acquire a more conventional setup, and that after that, he went ahead by means of his own boot straps...
Last week softball (minus its rover) was brought back indoors, stripped of its aliases and launched as a big-time winter sport. Patterned after major-league baseball's setup, the National Professional Indoor Baseball League sold franchises to New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis. Each club, locally financed, is to play a 102-game schedule from mid-November to mid-March, with a World Series at season's end between Eastern and Western champions...
...forwards, minus their star and the team's captain, Howie Mendel, are a comparative weak point. Coach Carr has indulged in a great many shifts in their personnel since the beginning of the year, but the present setup is Mendeler Art Page at left outside, Prenny Willetts at left Inside, Murphy at center, Ernie Staber at right inside, and Gordon Halstead at right outside, with Art Neff as alternate...
...Duckwalking Bobby had little to do late in the week but watch Welby wallop stylists like Elwood Cooke and Wayne Sabin (who beat Quist). When the final round came Sunday afternoon, 21-year-old Bobby knew how to handle Welby. Bobby kept him moving, fed him no setup lobs, passed him at the net, caught him flustered and flatfooted with service aces, finished him off in straight sets, 6-4, 6-2, 6-4. Bobby won the title, but the boy they talked about on the way home was Welby. "Next year," they said. In the women's singles...
...cost setup, with Correspondent John Steele the only staff man abroad, Chicago Tribune's Sigrid Schultz on retainer in Berlin, Waverly Root in Paris, English Newsman Patrick Maitland on tap in Warsaw. At home plate virtually the whole team is clear and quick-thinking, war-trained Commentator Raymond Gram Swing, who has been eating, sleeping, reading, listening, broadcasting round the clock in a 24th floor office of WOR on Broadway...