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Bradshaw warned that these statistics should not discourage students interested in the above fields from carefully investigating job possibilities in them. Conscientious and early efforts to break into even the tightest job areas are likely to bear fruit, he said...
With Yankee Veteran Allie Reynolds pitching brilliant, two-hit ball, the 66,222 fans had seen some of the tightest precision baseball since the days of Christy Mathewson and Chief Bender. But there was no delirium in the stands; coming as it did after cliff-hanger finales in both pennant races, this hitless brand of play was not the kind to inspire frenzied cheering. In the second game, the story was almost the same, in reverse. Brooklyn's skinny, curve-balling lefthander, Preacher Roe, gave up only six scattered hits while his teammates babied the one-run lead they...
...trip will also give McInnis a chance to alternate his outfielders in order to attain the best-hitting and tightest-fielding combination by the time the team returns to Cambridge. Tentative plans call for Steve Howe to open in left, Hal Moffie in center, and John Caulfield in right...
...nine innings at Braves Field, a crowd of 40,135 sat spellbound by the tightest World Series pitchers' duel since Art Nehf beat Sad Sam Jones in 1923. Sain kept feeding the Indians big, jug-handle curves, interspersed with little curves, until they were fit to be tied. His control was uncanny; he allowed four hits and not one walk. Feller, who pitched a two-hitter, gave up three bases on balls, which led to his undoing. He lost a heartbreaker...
...House Appropriations Committee did something about that. It promised to make $2,376,000,000 immediately available for aircraft procurement. Chairman John Taber, one of the tightest-fisted men in Congress, announced that his committee would have the appropriation bill on the House floor this week...