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...reason why the Yankees stayed in the pennant race was apple-cheeked Hank Borowy (won 8, lost 2), with help from Swampy Donald and Floyd Bevens (they had nine wins between them, four defeats). Detroit had the best southpaw in the business, Lefty Hal Newhouser (9-4), with three stalwarts to lick him up. Also comfortably ahead of their bat ting competition: the Athletics' tall, thin submariner, Russ Christopher (10-2); Washington's knuckleballer Dutch Leon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pitcher's Heyday | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

Left Bank. In Chattanooga, a bank ordered printed for a southpaw depositor a "lefthanded" check book, with checks on the left, stubs on the right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 26, 1945 | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

...addition, the Crimson will have southpaw Johnny Knowles, up from the B-team, Ronnie Wright, of intramural softball fame, and a couple of newcomers, Bill O'Neil and Bill Johnson. "If one or more of these boys comes through," says Stahl, "Wallace shouldn't have to carry as heavy a pitching burden as he did last summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strong Pitching Staff Seen As Crimson Starts Training | 3/16/1945 | See Source »

...painters, fame comes easily and early, with the rolling drums of ballyhoo. This week Manhattan is having a look at a one-man show by Julian Levi, who has built himself a reputation the slow, hard, un-pressagented way. A slight, soft-spoken man with a fierce walrus moustache, Southpaw Painter Levi weathered the depression as a WPArtist, has since sold his work to 15 ranking U.S. museums. His quiet, low-keyed canvases now bring from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Seagoing Southpaw | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

...asked the southpaw why he didn't get the sword himself. He said: "I let my buddy have it. I can't carry any more.'' He pointed to his pack which he had laid on the ground. There were three samurai swords hung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Last Charge | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

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