Word: webs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eighteen players, accompanied by their coach, a trainer, tow managers, and one publicity director, will make the southern junket. The men who will tackle the six-games-in-six-days schedule include pitchers Ira Godin, Ralph Hymans, Roy Meears, and Barry Turner; catchers Cliff Crosby and Web Durant; infielders Walt Coulson, Harry Cavanaugh, Mort Dunn, Ernie Mannino; and outfielders John Caulfield, Steve Howe, Hal Moffie, Dick Kobusch, Gordy Ellis, and Kevin Reilly...
Cliff Crosby, Armie Essaryen, and Web Durant--last season's catching corps--are all back this spring...
...powerful means for achieving true happiness," noted candid young Leo Tolstoy in his diary, "[is] to spread out from oneself, in every direction, like a spider, a whole spider's web of love, and to catch in it everything that comes along-whether it is an old woman or a child, a girl or a policeman...
Tatyana Bers Kuzminskaya, who was born in 1846 and died in 1925, was no more than a child when she and her elder sisters, Liza and Sonya, were caught in Tolstoy's love-web. Sister Liza fell madly in love with young Tolstoy-only to find that he was in love with sister Sonya, who became his wife. Tatyana herself got the next best break: her brother-in-law admired her so much that he made her the model for his heroine, Natasha Rostova, in War and Peace...
...climb up the Ivy ladder a rung or two. Ernie Maunine was hurt in the B.U. game and will not make the trip; nor will Armie Essayon, who is still ailing with a leg injury sustained in the Dartmouth game. Tom Sullivan will fill in at shortstop and Web Durant will catch...