Word: watchings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whom shrewd baseball men were touting as the player to watch in 1949 was Cleveland's 25-year-old Negro centerfielder, Larry Doby. Speedster Doby showed plenty of promise last year until, toward the end of the season, pitchers made a discovery: a dust-off ball, thrown in an early inning, could upset Doby's stance for the rest of the day. Doby began to slam fewer clothesline drives to the fences. If he could learn to handle the treatment, baseballers thought he might even be another Joe DiMaggio...
Peggy Wood, who must have delighted theatergoers of yesteryear in "Naughty Marietta" and "Bittersweet," is still very delightful to watch, both for her graceful beauty and her thorough characterization of the well-meaning, suspicious mother-in-law who almost wreeks her daughter's marriage. As her sister-in-law and complete opposite, June Walker is bouncy and very funny. The kind of woman who was once called "ente as a bug's car," she is now pudgy and painted, given to wearing fluffy mules around the house because of "foot trouble" but who nevertheless takes samba lessons. Most...
...Holt's crew is employed to watch the children of married students. Hence they are given rock bottom wages. Holt is faced with the delicate problem of keeping two groups of students happy. He feels the married ones would feel the pinch too much if they were forced to pay the unmarried ones any more...
...court will meet at 1:30 p.m. Friday in Carpenter Hall D, next to Briggs Cage. Civilians will be permitted to watch the proceedings...
...Beat It." At 23, John got into trouble with the police for stealing a typewriter and a movie projector. At an "honor farm" of Ohio State Reformatory, it was the same old story. Other prisoners avoided him: "I would walk up and watch them when they were playing cards. They let me stand there for awhile and then look up as if they were telling me to beat it." He ran away from the farm, was caught stealing again and sent back to the reformatory...