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Except for a short five-point spurt by game was a clear walk away for the seniors. High scorer for the class of '49 was Nancy Woodman, who popped in 12 of the 21 points. Marion Marshall added seven more to the final score...
...first the camera kept its eye close up, on pitcher & batter, and followed the runner to first. It has since learned that one of television's big thrills is watching Outfielder Joe DiMaggio take a practiced look at a ball heading his way, turn, and without looking back spurt to the right spot, swing around casually and let the ball fall into his glove. The unexpected makes some of television's brightest moments: a rainstorm breaks, and the camera shows ground keepers covering the pitcher's box with canvas, then sweeps across the bleachers, singling out soaked...
...week long, stock exchange traders watched the ticker for some sign that the previous weekend's sudden spurt in both prices and volume of trading (TIME, March 29) indicated the long-awaited break in the 22-month-old bear market...
...Roman churches, amid a fateful battle to save Italy from Communism (see FOREIGN NEWS), priests substituted olive branches for the usual palm branches, to express their hope that peace would prevail. In Jerusalem, the tradition?.! procession from Bethany to Jerusalem's gate was canceled, because of the new spurt of fighting in the Holy Land...
...Symptoms. Dr. Halliday, onetime general practitioner and now a member of Scotland's Department of Health, finds many signs that society is coming apart at the mental seams. Except for a wartime spurt, the birthrate is declining, owing not to poor health but to the neurotic anxieties of parents. While the birthrate goes down, psychosomatic complaints such as peptic (stomach) ulcers...