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Real as a gob of spit, as antiseptically moral as the Ma Perkins program, the surprisingly adequate film version of "The Hucksters" gives us jug-eared, musk-exuding Clark Gable, mounting a full-tilt attack on Inane Advertising; the picture is at the same time, however, the unconscious exemplar of much that is awry in the cinema industry...
...Sickness . . . is caused by very small germs. . . . A lot of them together look like a very small speck. They like the dark, dirty places. A few germs become a lot in a short time. . . . In spit there are too many to think of. . . . No one must spit in the igloo...
...Burning Tree. A nervous chain-smoker, likable young Lew Worsham had taken his wife to St. Louis with him, but made her stay back in the clubhouse. When he faltered momentarily on the 17th in the final round, one onlooker said: "There goes $50,000." But Worsham spit on his hands, with newsreels grinding beside him and shot a par. That gave him a two-under-par 282 for the 72 holes; he went off nervously to the lockerroom for a bottle of beer. He had the lead but it was not much of one. Twenty minutes later, Oldtimer...
...plate, if not before, it was dry. Growled Ott: "Sliders and sinkers revolve-you can't see the stitches on the seams as they come to the plate like you can with a spitter." Other pitchers-Rip Sewell, Fred Ostermueller, Claude Passeau-have been unofficially accused of using "spit-sweat" balls in pinches. They deny it, and so does Schoolboy Rowe...
...There is only one way to stop it," suggested one Philadelphia pitcher. "Make the spit ball legal again." Said Schoolboy Rowe with a straight face: "Oh, that's a dirty habit...