Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Switch-Hitter Mantle, with the free & easy swing of an old pro, was batting .395, had slammed out two home runs. Going into the sixth inning against San Francisco at week's end, Rookie Mantle stepped up to the plate and banged out another homer. It was only spring training time, but some awed scouts (particularly Yankee scouts) were already comparing him to Ty Cobb...
...House volley-ball league is now in full swing; all eight Houses had matches yesterday. Eliot edged Leverett, 2 to 1, while Dunster, Kirkland, and Adams each shut out Lowell, Dudley, and Winthrop...
...cheerful pictures, Henry does. It also shows Koerner's growing independence of involved, story-telling props. The children's airplane swing on which the figure poses might be taken to symbolize the young showoff side of any artist's make-up as well as the realist's happy lot-which is to go around looking. The jar of fish he totes with him might symbolize almost anything. But those two props do not make the painting, or even intrude on it too much...
Ambitious Mario wants to sing in opera at La Scala next October. But before that time, he has more towns awaiting him on his concert swing: Columbus, Philadelphia, Miami Beach and 14 others. And he is due back in Hollywood in May to make another movie...
When I departed in 1938 the United States was climbing out of the Great Depression. Roosevelt's New Deal was in full swing. Liberal, progressive forces were in the saddle...