Word: starter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always been tough for left-hand pitchers. In the afternoon, Casey started Lefty Tommy Byrne-and lost. In the nightcap, when Righty Don Larsen was shelled from the mound, Casey turned stubbornly to another southpaw, stocky Whitey Ford, who is not only a left-hander but also a valuable starter, too important to tire in relief. It turned out to be the right move...
Rorimer's father was a wealthy Cleveland sculptor and decorator who encouraged his son to learn about art by collecting it, suggested candlesticks for a starter. "So I went around Europe collecting candlesticks," Rorimer says...
Just as the Public Health Service was using one hand last week to press the starter button and get the stalled polio vaccine program running again, one of its spokesmen disclosed how close the U.S. had been to unimaginable disaster. Dr. William H. Sebrell Jr., director of the PHS's National Institutes of Health, testifying before a House committee, in effect answered the question that for a month had haunted U.S. parents: was the Salk vaccine safe? Answer: no, not under testing procedures so far used. Sebrell admitted that the safety tests originally developed for the 1955 Salk vaccine...
Teacher in a Hurry. Half an hour before the race, runners, trying to warm up in the rain, began to jog toward the starting line on the hill where the wet macadam of Highway 135 reaches toward Boston. The starter's gun barked at the stroke of noon. "Look at those guys," said a newsman astonished by the first scrambling sprint for position. "They've got million-dollar legs and five-cent heads." But by the time the field reached the first check point in Framingham, the tangle had unwound. The nickel noggins had dropped back; a Staten...
Rossano, victor over M.I.T., Tufts, and Columbia, and loser only to Quantico Marines, has the best earned run average on the team. He has allowed only 0.48 earned runs per nine innings pitched. Shepard's other possible starter, Bob Kessler, who also has won three while losing one, has a 2.39 ERA. Andy Ward, who will probably pitch against Navy tomorrow, has compiled a 1.47 ERA in winning his two decisions...