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...best defensive maneuver of the day cost Harvard a possible trying run in the tenth. Jack Wallace opened the inning with a pinch-hit single to right, and with Jack Forte at the plate in an obvious sacrifice situation, Bill Gibson, Terrier catcher, called for a pitchout and picked Wallace off first with a fine throw to second-baseman Falloni...
Outside was chaos and the incongruities inseparable from disaster. A terrier bitch whelped beside a dazed crowd at the foot of the memorial to Texas City's World War II dead. A Negro, suffering from concussion after being blown off the dock into the bay, swam back, walked to his blasted home, started patching it with hammer and nails. One man emerged from the rubble of the Texas Terminal Railway Building carrying $10 million in insurance policies in a bedsheet. He turned them over to the police. After dark, the inevitable looters worked the ruins...
...letter was in familiar surroundings, but its author was not. Mollie Panter-Downes, London correspondent for the New Yorker since the day Britain went to war, had come to Manhattan to meet her bosses for the first time. The "goddam bunch of neurotics," as terrier-tempered Editor Harold Ross calls his jumpy staff, were charmed...
...history of Manhattan's blueblood Westminster Kennel Club show, was a boxer, a mighty pug-ugly named Warlord of Mazelaine, which won best-in-show over 2,598 rivals. The decision was up to one judge and his conscience, and he cleared it this way: "The Boston [terrier] impressed me very much but the boxer was best tonight. Perhaps tomorrow the Boston would have had the better...
Guard Steve Davis held George Gaudrault, the Terrier ace, to a single basket in the first half, but Gaudrault had a torrid second period to lead the visitors with 15 points. For the Crimson, Hauptfuhrer turned in a polished performance at the pivot in the first half when he garnered 12 points, but had trouble in the final twenty minutes with B.U.'s Harry Botsford, an elongated center Coach Russ Peterson sent in to guard the Crimson pivot...