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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Pitching & Prophecy. At bat, the well-heeled Sox are the most dangerous club in either league. Comparatively weak in seasoned pitchers, they boast two fine ones on 1949 form: Left-hander Mel Parnell, 27, who won 25 games, and Right-hander Ellis Kinder, 35, who won 23. Back of them are two young lefthanders, Chuck Stobbs, 20, and Speed Artist Maurice Mc-Dermott, 21, who are both marked "promising." On paper the Sox have the best first team in the business, but they are weak "on the bench," i.e., in replacements. Midseason injuries to such mainstays as dependable Bobby Doerr...
When young Nelson took the stand, he seemed unimpressed by the fact that his Magic Spikes had got no response out of the Geiger counter. Said he blandly to the jurors: "I believe we have an unrecognized form of radioactivity...
...Rosalie Reynolds did the work for her Master of Science degree. It was a hard job, because hyaluronidase is an elusive substance that has never been isolated in pure form. Mrs. Reynolds could find none in tissue taken from healthy mice. She induced cancer in 50 mice and produced uniformly heavy concentrations of the enzyme. The percentage was equally high regardless of the cancer's size or the substance used to produce...
...This does not mean that either Catholic or Protestant theory is committed to socialism. It certainly does mean that it rejects the theory that every form of socialism is but a halfway house to Communism, and that every form of social control upon economic process is inherently wrong...
...this bit of wisdom, the reader has to swallow the whole Shulman shovelful of old wheezes, soggy puns, strained parodies and cheap leers at the female form, a mixture that might be the waste from S. J. Perelman's basket. Sample: "I was going down to Florida anyhow," hums the rich girl. "There's some alligators down there making...