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...whom shrewd baseball men were touting as the player to watch in 1949 was Cleveland's 25-year-old Negro centerfielder, Larry Doby. Speedster Doby showed plenty of promise last year until, toward the end of the season, pitchers made a discovery: a dust-off ball, thrown in an early inning, could upset Doby's stance for the rest of the day. Doby began to slam fewer clothesline drives to the fences. If he could learn to handle the treatment, baseballers thought he might even be another Joe DiMaggio...
...Love. Test Pilot Yeager knew all this when he prepared to fly the Air Force's odd little Bell speedster. He took over the X-1 from a civilian test pilot, Chalmers ("Slick") Goodlin, who had flown the ominous little ship at Mach .8 (eight-tenths of the speed of sound). Goodlin was offered a fat reward (a rumored $150,000) for flying it at full speed, but he did not like the terms. Another civilian pilot had a try at the X-1 and hastily bowed out. Then the Air Force took charge and gave...
...latest Paris fashions, swam and danced with vigor, and mixed freely with the cosmopolites in Alexandria's foreign colony. Her courtship by Egypt's young King Farouk had been a riotous affair during which the two were often seen careering through Cairo in Farouk's snappy speedster or dancing together at Shepheard's. Although some 400 Egyptians were trampled to death or otherwise injured in the jubilation that followed the wedding, all might have been well if only Farida had had a son. But three times during the next few years the bells rang...
...last scene proved the whole thing was something of a tragi-comedy in the eyes of the law. At about 10 a.m. Monday morning in Dedham district court a still-sad Harvard speedster stood before the judge who understandingly, with big unconcealed smile and laughter, agreed that penalty enough had already been paid and the case should be filed without fine. . . . Sect. 47, Row MM, Seats...
...yesterday's practice scrimmage, Chase's choices as first squad forwards were Captain Dave Key at center, and Charlie Coulter and sophomore speedster Jack Carman at the wings. As his second line, he used last year's sophomore combination of Myles Huntington, Dave Abbot, and Tom Mosely. Changes in these lines can easily occur between now and Tuesday, however...