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...that dangerous pitch has all but vanished. Just about the only survival from baseball's rowdy youth is the "accidental" beanball, the close pitch that keeps a batter honest by forcing him back from the plate, that keeps him from taking a toehold and getting set to powder the ball. If the Phillies' Coach Whitlow Wyatt, who learned his baseball manners as one of Leo Durocher's Dodgers, had his way, Philly pitchers would put the brush-back pitch to constant use. "I think you ought to play it mean," says Whit, "like Durocher did. They ought...
...Said a Peking commentator: "Let a few pioneers set the example and the masses will follow." To push the new look, fashion shows were staged in Peking. Shanghai, Canton and other cities. Despite warnings against tight dresses and too much "making up," sales of brassieres and Imperial Concubine face powder (named for a famous beauty of the Tang dynasty) shot up. A government official even spoke of "the beauty of curves." A dress shop opened last week in Peking with 3,000 spring dress varieties on sale...
Down from the snow-covered Rockies shrieked a chill gale one day last week, sucking up the powder-dry top soil of southeastern Colorado, tossing clods and pebbles across the cracked farm lands of the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles, blasting at the withering roots of range lands through central Texas, and blowing on out across the Gulf of Mexico. Across the prairie dust clouds boiled up as high as 20,000 feet in the worst duster since the black days...
...Americans, with your machines and your black powder, you were impatient, you needed the land leveled at once, to land your airplanes. So your trucks came to the farm of my neighbor, and in one day, you destroyed his hills, carried them away, and now he has all his land leveled and grows much more than he ever dreamed he could...
...greener, or perhaps it is the atmosphere that has become more relaxing and more colorful. A few authors with typewriters and beards peck and hunt for a minute, then close their eyes and listen for five. Touch-tackle games flourish only to pause when the refreshing pinks and powder-blues float...