Word: southpaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hampshire's two Congressmen, Perkins Bass and Chester Merrow, and Maurice Murphy Jr., who is serving out Styles's Senate term under appointment by Governor Wesley Powell. "Mo" Murphy, 34,' an amiable fellow, is also considered a "Bridges Republican," but he stands to the southpaw side of Doloris (he favors financial aid to the U.N., she is against it). He argues that the voters ought to keep him in Washington because he is so young and he already has a few months' Senate seniority. Merrow, after 20 years in the House, has a well-oiled local...
Besides the new faces, Minnesota has its (relatively) old standby's, Earl Battey Lennie Green, Bob Allison, and Harmon Killebrew. The Twins have a real weakness, however, and it is a big one. After righhander Camilo Pascual and southpaw Jim Kaat, starting pitchs are hard to find...
Pool playing is becoming respectable again. The recent film, The Hustler, may have done little to elevate the game's social position, but it demonstrated to millions its hypnotic appeal. A memorable photograph of Britain's Queen Mother neatly pulling off a southpaw shot did wonders in selling the game to women. But pool's biggest push has come from bowling...
...coach Shepard was "impressed by the quality of the team. Their record doesn't indicate just how good they are. They are a strong team, a veteran team, and they have two excellent pitchers in junior Bob Kelley, a rightander with a good fastball, and sophomore Chris Getman, a southpaw...
...gentle practical jokes and good-humored cracks. He once told John F. Kennedy: "They tell me I'm too old to play baseball and you're too young to be President. We ought to get together." Playing for Fun. A onetime pitcher who learned to spin a southpaw curve on the sooty sidewalks of Donora, Pa., Musial could, if he chose, retire with honor and security. He has never haggled over money: when he signed the National League's first $100,000 contract in 1958, he was frankly embarrassed. "I would have settled for less," he told...