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...danger. In their last half, Washington filled the bases with one out and Pinch-hitter Cliff Bolton went to bat. Out from the Giants' bench raced Charley Dressen. a substitute third baseman who had not had his hands on the ball throughout the series. He waylaid Manager Terry. "Play back. Bill," he begged. "I know this guy Bolton from the minors. He hits hard but he's the slowest man in the league. Play him for a double play!" Astonished, Terry obeyed, ordered his infielders back. True to Dressen's word. Bolton burned a drive to shortstop...
...Dwight Fiske's book, all the characters-except a preposterous old woman from Boston (where Without Music should be banned) who goes to Egypt and allows herself to be waylaid by an ostrich-lead decadent sex lives. Characteristically deplorable is the case of Clarissa the Flea who traveled from Vera Cruz to New York on an old tramp. Spanish and nervous, she had no difficulty in working her way into the heart of New York society. Clarissa's mother joined Sir Hubert Wilkins' expedition to the North Pole, conducted an equivocal expedition into the interior...
Passing through the Metropolitan's narrow stage door Scotti managed a smile for photographers who waylaid him. He shook hands gravely with hulking Giulio Gatti-Casazza who had made his debut as manager of the Scala in Milan the night Scotti first sang there 34 years ago. Then he went upsteps to a dingy dressing-room, locked the door, took pictures of his long-dead father and mother from the little black bag and sat them down before a mirror. Slowly he smeared his face with yellow paint, donned a snakey-cued China-man's wig. For that...
...campaign train. I studied political science under Professor Moley at Columbia some eight years ago and thought him shrewd, honest, fearless. His work as head of the Cleveland crime commission (about 1923) brought him wide fame and the attention of a number of Cleveland thugs who waylaid him one night, fortunately without too serious results, because of his unwelcome interest in some of the more putrid corners of that great city. (No criticism of Cleveland-it does not differ from other places of comparable population in respect to the criminal element.) What Mr. Moley and his associates found was incorporated...
...mail subscriptions, with two exceptions. From Denver, Publisher Fred G. Bonfiis shipped bundles of his noisy Post into Butte. From Seattle came supplies of Hearst's Post-Intelligencer. A Butte Post office boy, en route from the post office with the day's load of "exchanges," was waylaid by news-starved passersby who offered him 50? a copy. He was incorruptible...