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...Cape Harting, with crated P-40s on her deck and a bellyfull of barreled aviation fuel, snaked through the Sandy Hook minefields one May morning. Rusty or not, she was good for 15 knots in a pinch, and sailed without convoy. Her chief engineer, an oldtime wrench-pusher named Seligman, knew just enough about high-pressure steam turbines to keep his nose out of the engine room. The men who ran the show down there were his assistants-notably Ed Greenewater, the first assistant, a sloppy, red-faced kid with an intuitive, possessive feel for engines, and Paul Jessup...
...Crimson, righthander Jack Wallace lasted eight innings and gave up all the runs, and all of the Elis '13 bits. He was lifted for a pinch hitter in the Varsity's two-run eighth inning. Left-hander Ira Godin came on in the ninth and set the Elis down in order...
...more Crimson runs pattered across the plate int he eighth when Mariaschin walked, took third on Brendan Reilly's pinch double, and scored in front of Walt Adler, who ran for Reilly, on Yale's first-sacker George' Bush's mishandling of Caulfield's pinch...
With one down in the last of the seventh, pinch-hitter Robert (Tie) Cobb leaped high in the air to stroke the 0 and 2 pitch out of the premises with one mate aboard...
...funny," the late Gertrude Stein wrote, "you have to take everything in the kitchen and put it on the floor." Just about everything from the U.S.'s historical kitchen was on the stage last week at Columbia University; whatever was missing (such as a pinch of salt) could easily be added by the listener. The occasion was the first performance of Gertrude Stein's last finished work, a pleasant and unpretentious little opera, The Mother...