Word: slammingly
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...been bad enough having Harold Ickes slam down his mitt and stomp off the field. Picking a substitute was almost worse. With big Ed Pauley ducking pop bottles, and Harry Truman's Missouri infield hobbling weak grounders, the President's critics were ready to boo almost anyone he sent in. But last week some of them actually found themselves applauding his new Secretary of the Interior, tall (6 ft. 3 in.), huge (237 Ibs.), young (38) Julius Albert Krug, last chairman of the late War Production Board...
...Mexican league of sorts has limped along, largely on unofficial betting, for 21 years. A once great U.S. star, Rogers Hornsby, took a fling at it in 1944. quit after he had broken up a game with a grand-slam homer. (The club owner told him he shouldn't have done that, because it would hurt the next day's attendance.) By such showmanship the brothers Pasquel hope to take Mexico's mind off bullfighting. They talk big of plans to lure 30 or 40 U.S. big-leaguers south next year, to increase their three-games...
...Mouledous grand slam was no surprise to the experts. Dick, a confident but not cocky youngster, began to look good last summer when he ripped through boys' tournaments in straight sets, won the National Outdoor Boys' Singles championship without trouble. Besides a powerful forehand, he has an exceptional change of pace, a tantalizing drop shot. A big fellow for his age, Dick Mouledous (whose father runs a butcher shop) is over 6 ft., weighs...
...know," he snapped, "that Chevrolet salesmen take prospects over to a Ford salesroom and slam a car door. When it sounds like this they just say 'see, tin,' then take them back and sell them a Chevrolet...
Sirs, if you have a conscience at all, you will see to it that . . . music criticism is put into sane and capable hands. (Signed) R. C. Taylor Dale S. Higbee. G. Norman McKinney J. G. Slam Charles M. Daley...