Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from St. Louis, craggy-browed Outfielder Moon, 29, lifted the team with his slashing play. The big pitcher turned out to be Roger Craig, 28, a lanky, laconic righthander, who had a horrendous 5-17 record last year at St. Paul. This year Craig developed an assortment of soft stuff to go with his fastball, by last week had compiled a 10-5 record and an earned-run average of 2.13, lowest of any starter in the league...
...last day of the season, the Giants blew it; they lost to the Cardinals, 2-1. But in Chicago, the Dodgers' jug-eared Pitcher Craig was the soul of self-assurance ("I'm not cocky-I'm confident"), threw his soft stuff at the Cubs for four innings, then switched to his fastball to win 7-1. But the Braves stayed alive more because of Phillies' boners than their own skills...
...nonexistent; art dealers, no matter how covetous they may be, cannot afford to handle such hot merchandise. In the old days, thieves could find ready buyers (if not patrons) among wealthy aristocrats. But today, chances are slim that the thieves were hired by one such determined art lover. "That stuff will be hot for the next 100 years," said Toronto Inspector John Gillespie, as police dispatched photographs of the stolen masterpieces throughout the world. "I don't know how they will get rid of it." Best guess: the thieves have merely kidnaped the six pictures, plan to hold them...
...Advocate contains a short sketch by William Kelly about life in a tenement and a demonic child. Unfortunately, the characters have hardly any chance to develop and remain somewhat awkward attitude-figures, not really belonging in this piece which, if it were to be acted, would be Method stuff...
...Ring. First prosecution witness was burly, mustached Izmir Police Inspector Yilmaz Capin. Specifically asked by Judge Celal Varol about any rough stuff during the arrests, Capin denied beating anyone. At this point, a Turkish civilian, Sureya Eslek, on trial with the Americans, leaped to his feet and called Capin a liar, crying, "I was beaten!" After testifying that he "watched" one illegal exchange of currency through a window, which reporters subsequently discovered to be opaque, Policeman Capin grumpily sat down, spent the rest of the day glaring at Defendant Eslek and opening and closing his fist in a way that...