Word: easterlies
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...Last Sunday, the Greek Orthodox Easter, the general visited the Greek battalion in Korea, who welcomed him as a vividly remembered friend. He remembered some of them, too. After the inspection, he went to a table where Metaxa Brandy and red-dyed Easter eggs were set. It is an Orthodox custom for two friends each to take an egg and strike them together; he whose egg remains unbroken is supposed to be the better man. Van Fleet tried this with the Greek commander, and there was much good-natured guffawing when the American's egg cracked...
Rector Ribble feels that he has his work cut out for him. He plans to use the returns as a guide in planning his future sermons. Meanwhile, theological arguments have been breaking up parishioners' bridge and canasta games, and Grace and Holy Trinity's post-Easter Sunday congregations have been running about a third larger than usual...
...like a hopped-up jackrabbit one night last week, Cleveland's Rookie Outfielder Harry Simpson handled the new position without an error and cracked out two hits in three times at bat as the Indians beat the Boston Red Sox, 7-1. Rookie Simpson, substituting for injured Luke Easter, turned in a bang-up performance in his first-base debut. But the occasion was noteworthy for another reason too. It was the first time in the major leagues that one Negro had substituted in the starting line-up for another...
...means a lot to a Madden of Connemara. "There isn't a better class of fighting man from Oughterard to Letterfrack," shrills Mrs. Colgan, the old lady who introduces Recruit Madden to the rebel army just in time for him to get in a few licks in the Easter Rising. And sure enough, Madden quickly proves himself the sort of character who looks his best in very curt sentences, e.g., "Madden floored the bricklayer with a right...
...first year running the Cleveland Indians. The best pitching in the league and a good outfield and catching crews will need plenty of help from the infield if the Indians are going to best the Sox or Yanks. The corners are in the capable hands of Luke Easter and Al Rosen, but Bob Avila and Ray Boone are yet to be proven around the keystone...