Word: catcher
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...states and all the members of Congress. He also got a holiday shopping assignment: he's to "buy the boys soft drinks" with a check for $8,000 from the Women's Christian Temperance Union. With an 87-member troupe including Actress Ursula Andress, Cincinnati Reds Catcher Johnny Bench, and Miss World Jennifer Hosten, Hope will spend 15 days at military installations in Britain, West Germany, the Mediterranean, Thailand, Korea, Alaska and, of course, Viet Nam. "I hope it's the last time I get to Viet Nam," said Bob, "and I think it will...
Died. George Smith, 65, Britain's top spy catcher, Detective Superintendent of Scotland Yard's Special Branch until 1963; of a heart attack; in Bath, England. Part of a team working with Military Intelligence (M.I.5), Smith built a reputation as a tracker of Nazi parachutists and saboteurs in World War II. In the shadow world of peacetime espionage, he put the finger on Atomic Spy Allan Nunn May in 1946 and Klaus Fuchs in 1950. But the most celebrated coup of his 35-year career was the unraveling in 1961 of a Soviet network headed by Spy Chief...
...Cincinnati wives. They knew that nothing is worse than a losing outfit. Mrs. Jim McGlothlin polished her fingernails just before going to the ballpark, then proceeded to peel off the polish as an antidote to nail biting. It is a ploy that Merle Hendricks, wife of Oriole Catcher Elrod, could have used: she gnawed her nails throughout the Series. Oriole Pitcher Dave McNally got one kiss goodbye and one kiss for good luck on the day he pitched. Should McNally have felt more amorous, it would have been to no avail-two is the limit. Strangest of all were...
...Little Rock, Ark., Brooks Robinson used to deliver newspapers to the home of his hero, Yankee Catcher Bill Dickey. One morning, hoping to impress the star with his throwing arm, young Brooks wound up and threw a rolled-up paper at the Dickeys' front porch. The paper landed on the roof. Robinson, now 33, has made few bad plays since. Last week, throwing, fielding and hitting like a man possessed, baseball's premier third baseman led the Baltimore Orioles to a four-games-to-one World Series victory over the Cincinnati Reds with one of the most spectacular...
...Robby the Robber stole another base hit from Cincinnati in the third game with an incredible diving catch that left the Reds talking to themselves. "That guy can field a ball with a pair of pliers," moaned Rightfielder Pete Rose. "The only way to beat him," added Catcher Johnny Bench, "is to hit it over his head." Bench should know. In the final game, the Reds' cleanup hitter powered a line smash toward left field only to see Robinson make yet another spectacular diving catch. Reds Manager Sparky Anderson summed up the Series in three little words: "Robinson beat...