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Both teams collected unearned runs in the second inning. Tom Thornton, the football quarterback and leftfielder who contributed a clutch error to the Harvard seventh-frame uprising, started things off by beating out a grounder on a close play at first. He stole second, moved to third on a passed ball by Crimson catcher Jeff Hall, and scored on a squeeze bunt...

Author: By Andrew Jamison, | Title: Peters Whiffs 16 in 4-1 Win Over B.U. | 5/24/1967 | See Source »

Peters shut out the Terriers on two hits from then on, while his teammates finally got to Stipanovich in the seventh. Smith and Dan Hootstein the rightfielder playing in his last game for the Crimson, singled, and both advanced a base when Thornton had trouble picking up Hootstein's shot to left. They both scored on Lord's blast to center, and those two tallies proved to be the winning runs...

Author: By Andrew Jamison, | Title: Peters Whiffs 16 in 4-1 Win Over B.U. | 5/24/1967 | See Source »

...Hall 3 1 1 M'nch'r 2 0 0 Peters 4 0 0 Totals 30 4 5 B.U. ab r h Fontas 4 0 2 Mortimer 3 0 0 Wood 4 0 1 Neild 4 0 0 Thornton 3 1 1 Lever'ne 3 0 0 Fenton 3 0 0 Olmare 1 0 0 McBride 1 0 0 St'p'ch 3 0 0 Mara 0 0 0 Totals...

Author: By Andrew Jamison, | Title: Peters Whiffs 16 in 4-1 Win Over B.U. | 5/24/1967 | See Source »

...board rejected Litton's first offer last year-it seems sure that when the Cleveland company's shareholders meet within 90 days, they will agree to the proposal. Certainly Vernon Stouffer, after 43 years in the business, will not be dismayed when Litton Chairman Tex Thornton and his West Coasters take over. He will stay on as chairman, but only last year his family bought the Cleveland Indians, and, he says, "I'm looking forward to spending more time at the ballpark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Business: Out at the Ballpark | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

...with characters who are merely symbols and a story that is an abstraction. After visiting Coaltown, readers may want to hop a fast freight to Grover's Corners, the setting of Our Town, whose scale was smaller but whose philosophy seemed almost as tangible as its strawberry sodas. Thornton Wilder remains engaging, thoughtful, a man to meet. Yet in this book, one longs for more substance, more authentic heart, more

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Everytown | 3/31/1967 | See Source »

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