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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...novel expedient of changing horses in the stretch, Radio Corp. of America made a surprise spurt in the color television sweepstakes.* Abandoning the "dichroic mirror" cathode tube which it had used through the past 3½ months of demonstrations before the Federal Communications Commission, RCA last week unveiled a new, all-electronic, direct-view color tube to some 60 newsmen at an NBC studio in Washington...
...consistently better clip than any other player of his time. It is his earnest and sorrowful conviction that the pitching in the American League is getting better & better as time rolls on. If so, this will obviously make it even more difficult than it has been in the past for Ted Williams to do what he wants to do every time he comes to bat, i.e., hit the ball into the right-field stand...
Pennants are never won on paper, and for the past two seasons the Sox have been nosed out of the race on the last day. This year, as last, the Yankees may well outrun them, but no expert would care to guarantee the outcome of the 1950 race. As the Yankees' manager, wily old Casey Stengel, puts it, "We'll all be knocking our heads together this year . . . Detroit is much better. Cleveland will be a lot tougher, and so will Connie's Athletics." (The A's are out to win one more pennant...
...when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him. And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun. And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre? And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great...
...building of the new church has been a shot in the arm for the congregation: the past year has shown a 100% increase in attendance of young adults, and church attendance has increased 25%. Besides their tithes and contributions, Shelby County farmers cooperatively grew $1,100 worth of soybeans for the church last year on a 42-acre plot of rented land...