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Brown has only one player with a semi-respectable batting average--catcher sub Hall, whose mark is in the vicinity of .290. Their top pitcher is Renaissance Miss Steve Kadison, who last year was the fourth leading hitter in the EIBL with a .405-average. Kadison's hitting, however, has tailed off considerably this year but he still has the capacity to whack the long ball...
...Soldiers' Field at about 3 p.m. today, the track team begins its semi-annual, to-day demonstration of supremacy among Boston area cinder squads...
...result, four California youths set fire to an acre of the Angeles National Forest with a blast from a German-made, 20-mm. antitank gun that they had bought from a Culver City firm for $150. And last September, the FBI seized four Russian-army Tokarev semi-automatic rifles that had been shipped to members of the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi...
Hypnotic Moment. On the days of a performance, he falls into a semi-somnambulant state, eating little, seeing no one. "I am dying all the day," he says sadly. In the late afternoon he packs his gear and drives off to the theater in his beige Mercedes 3205L, arriving two hours before curtain time. Then, swaddled in layer upon layer of sweaters, sweat pants, leggings and scarfs, he goes onto the deserted stage. After a long series of careful and precise unlimbering exercises, he runs through every step of the evening's ballet in deep concentration, shedding clothing...
Italian is one language in which a deaf-mute is not completely lost. Every facial tic, every finger flick, means something. A thumb jabbed at the mouth: "Waiter, bring some wine." A semi-rotating hand with thumb and forefinger up: "No can do." One raised finger: "Probably." Palm open: "Probably not." Tapping the center of the forehead: "Do you think I'm stupid?" Extended fingers slowly rubbing the underchin: "I couldn't care less...