Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Mateel Howe Farnham, 73, novelist (Marsh Fire, Wild Beauty, Lost Laughter, The Tollivers) and prolific short-story writer for women's magazines; in Norwalk, Conn. Daughter of the late Author-Editor-Philosopher Edgar Watson (Ed) Howe, Author Farnham won a $10,000 prize for her first novel, Rebellion (1927), describing a girl's breakaway from a tyrannical father, once (1934) wrote TIME: "I did write a novel about a rebellious daughter and an old-fashioned father, but not about this daughter or my own father...
...Crimson scored twice in the sixth on a walk, a double by Haughey, a ground out and Smith's second wild pitch. Pinch hitters George McGarrity and Dom Repetto each singled to drive in the final Crimson scores in the ninth...
Middie pitchers Dick Smith and Fred Anderson teased Harvard all afternoon, hitting two men, walking eight and tossing two wild pitches. But the Crimson left thirteen men stranded as the Navy hurlers gave up just seven scattered hits. The loss dropped the Crimson into fifth place in the Eastern Intercollegiate League...
...Then Navy's first baseman, Mike Willen threw John Simourian's ground ball down to second, but the ball hit Bergantino in the back and glanced off into centerfield, putting men on second and third. Bergantino scored when John Getch grounded out and Simourian came home on Smith's wild pitch...
Walt Stahura singled in a Crimson tally in the third for a 4-3 edge, and Harrington scored in the fourth, by a fielder's choice, a steal of second, a bad throw, and a wild pitch...