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Champion. Ring Lardner's prize middleweight heel, played with a wallop by Kirk Douglas (TiME, April...
...first home run, smacked from a wide-legged, right-handed stance, was a tremendous wallop that cleared Forbes Field's left-field fence by a good 75 feet. His second, landing on top of the scoreboard, brought a gasp of admiration from Teammate Ralph Kiner, the league's home-run leader and No. 2 batsman. Last week, after playing in only twelve games, Rookie Restelli had collected seven homers, driven in 14 runs, scored 13 himself, and filled the clubhouse with boxes of spaghetti (compliments of Pittsburgh fans...
...sixth, and once more in the seventh, the Terrier pups appropriated three last runs in the top of the ninth. With one out Agganis singled and scored on third baseman Hurley's single. Gayzagian added the final touch with a two run homer, his third extra base wallop, his fourth and fifth runs batted...
...faults, the film has novelty, emotional wallop and the excitement that comes from wrestling with a real problem, rather than fencing with a cooked-up plot. The acting, even against some unconvincing jungle sets, is persuasively lifelike; and even when it fumbles the statement of its message, the film retains a sort of rough-&-ready strength...
Sprinter Jon Spivak and quarter miler Harvey Thayer, Harvard's new one-two wallop in the running events, may decide the outcome of today's meet with Dartmouth at Hanover...