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Tufts' first attempt to move was frustrated by Bob Stringer's alert defensive play. After knocking one pass out of the air on second down, Stringer nailed a Tufts end for virtually no gain on the next play...
...Winning is all that counts." To tighten the shaky Yankee defense, Houk discarded Casey Stengel's platooning tactics, installed Tony Kubek permanently at shortstop, slick-fielding Cletis Boyer at third. To get more power into his lineup, he shifted Catcher Yogi Berra to leftfield, made longtime Second Stringer Elston Howard the No. 1 catcher...
...pitching department, Manager Freddie Hutchinson's "Kiddie Corps" performed like veterans. Jay, a second-stringer at Milwaukee, blossomed into a dependable regular with a 12-4 record and a 2.66 earned-run average, second best in the league. Fast-balling Rookie Ken Hunt, tamed of his wildness, posted a 9-4 record. To steady his young pitchers, Hutchinson relied on 31-year-old Bob Purkey, whose assortment of knucklers and sinkers earned him an 11-4 record. In the bullpen, he called on Bill Henry and bespectacled Writer Jim (The Long Season) Brosnan, who also uses brains...
...DISTINGUISHED statesman is joining the TIME Inc. family this week, and I would like to extend a warm welcome to our newest colleague, Henry Cabot Lodge. In a very real sense, this is a homecoming for Ambassador Lodge, who was TIME'S first stringer-correspondent, working out of Washington in 1924, when the magazine was but a year...
Junior James Pusey--the only regular who fenced sabre--swept all three of his bouts, just as he did against CCNY last week. Second-stringer Paul Winig also shutout his Hilltoppers opponent, while Charlie Staats took two of three bouts...