Word: fields
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...seventh. Maglie got two fast strikes past him, then fed him a low inside curve, "a pitch I had been getting Bell out with before." Bell fell away from the ball, swinging as he stepped back. He struck it on a looping arc toward the right-field foul pole, 257 ft. away. The ball landed low and inches fair for a home run, the shortest (by 40 ft.) possible homer in any National League park. Though Maglie lost his chance at Hubbell's record, by an inning and a third, the Giants won, 3-1. Maglie's record...
Last week both books were threatened by a new rival in the science-fantasy field. Frank Scully's Behind the Flying Saucers (Henry Holt; $2.75) was amazing its staid publisher with steadily mounting sales...
...three artists had submitted clay sketches to a competition jury consisting of four churchmen and three lay art experts, had been selected as the winners in a field of 76 contestants. The jury had little trouble picking Biagini and Crocetti, but Manzu's case was different...
Having got wisdom off his chest, Thompson got down to business. He was there to sell 306 purebred Hereford cattle from the nearby Switzer & Field ranch. Quickly he sold nine animals for a total of $39,925, topped the whole lot with a whopping $46,000 for one prize bull, Baca OJR Royal I. In two arm-flailing days filled with Thompson's rolling oratory, he and four assistants sold the entire Switzer & Field herd...
...sent the late Lucius Boomer of the Waldorf-Astoria and Pan Am Vice President H. B. Dean on a tour of South America to drum up local capital to build or buy hotels. The field looked so ripe that Pan Am put up $1 million to start a new subsidiary, Intercontinental Hotels Corp., arranged a $25 million credit with the Export-Import Bank, and decided to girdle the globe with hotels...