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...usual and pleasant sprinkling of handsome young actors and beautiful young actresses that have come to be a welcome characteristic of the summer stage. Of the latter category, Richard Barthelmess' daughter Mary is unquestionably the most beautiful and the most pleasant. A great deal of credit also goes to pinch-hitter Jolyon Baker for his playing of the nephew-in-everybody'shair, which he learned in the afternoon before the opening. Except for an occasional drag where clever dialogue fails to make up for lack of action, and the overplaying of a couple of necessarily riotous scenes, "George Washington Slept...
Clothing stores, too, are feeling the pinch of war, since the uniform requirement for Army and Navy officers has created a shortage of material
Leading the Yardling attack with two hits were Captain Vinnie Leahy, Jim Apthorp, and Hoss Hamlen. Don Richards clouted a pinch-hit double in the eighth, and he went all the way home when the left fielder allowed the ball to get away from...
Sophomore Brooks Heath, the squad's official utility outfielder, has been appointed to start in left. To date the Newton High graduate has been doing little more than pinch hit, and has a double for two recorded times...
...answer to a vast global problem of logistics that had consistently kept the superior surface force on the defense. Germany had partly brought the change about by starting to build her surface fleet during the starvation days of the Weimar Republic, and keeping up the program even when the pinch of war put the emphasis on U-boats...