Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next night in St. Louis it was the turn of another pitcher, a righthander this time, to face New York's No. 7. To gain the slight advantage which lefthanded batters are religiously believed to enjoy against righthanded pitchers (and vice versa), switch-hitting Mickey Mantle batted lefthanded. He let four pitches go by, then drove the fifth into the right center-field stands 405 feet for another homer. All in all. Mantle's week was an excellent demonstration of why pitchers turn grey. It was also one of several good reasons why the 1953 New York Yankees have opened...
...Taft had been running a slight temperature for a month, and he had severe pain in his right hip. After four days in the Army's Walter Reed Hospital, he flew home to Cincinnati and checked in at Holmes Hospital. There, one evening last week, he wrapped a blue robe around his bright yellow pajamas and dictated a speech. The next night, in the brilliant Hall of Mirrors of Cincinnati's Netherland Plaza hotel, Taft's second son, Lawyer Robert Taft Jr., stepped before a dinner of the National Conference of Christians & Jews and read his father...
...London, Enid Margaret Cripps, 32, youngest daughter of the late Sir Stafford Cripps, austerity Chancellor of the Exchequer, joined a slight, spectacled law student for an announcement to the press: they were going to be married in July. He was Joseph Manuel Appiah, thirtyish, son of an African tribal leader and personal representative in Britain of Gold Coast Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah. They had met at a party in London two years ago. As for the problems of an interracial marriage, they had the approval of both families and expected no social difficulties on the Gold Coast, where they will...
...Lili. A slight but charming cinemusical about an orphan girl, a young magician and a romantic puppeteer; with Leslie Caron, Jean Pierre Aumont, Mel Ferrer (TIME, March...
Reilly received the last rites of the Catholic Church Sunday, but last night authorities at the hospital gave him an even chance to live. "He's shown slight improvement, but we can't tell for a few days, because he's still unconscious," an attendant said...