Word: sparkplugging
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...Southpaw Ford held off the Dodgers through eight tight innings. Furillo and Snider reached him for homers; Jackie Robinson stole home-like a Mack truck. Still the Yanks stayed in front. They knocked out Big Don Newcombe before he finished six innings. Trying too hard to be the team sparkplug, Billy Martin was thrown out stealing home, but he saved the game with his fielding. First Baseman Joe Collins more than made up for the absence of injured Mickey Mantle by belting two home runs. Score: Yankees 6, Dodgers...
...startling assortment of injuries: a split thumb from a foul ball hit by the Athletics' Eddie Joost in an exhibition game, a bruised hip (during a slide), a chipped elbow when Whitey Lockman of the Giants crashed into him. Still he played, and still he was the sparkplug of the team...
...Southerner, with a deep sense of industry's responsibilities as well as its power, Williams won a proxy fight for control of Freeport Sulphur when he was only 27. A product of the University of Virginia ('24) and Harvard's Business School, he has been the sparkplug in Freeport's extensive exploration and fast expansion (TIME, Sept...
...Robert A. Stranahan Jr., 39, half-brother of famed Golfer Frank Stranahan, moved up to take over from his father the presidency of Champion Spark Plug Co., the nation's largest sparkplug company. R. A. Stranahan Sr., 68, and his brother, Frank D. Stranahan, 78, millionaire founders of the company, become co-chairmen of the board. Young Bob Stranahan graduated from Toledo's Scott High School, put in seven years on the production line, in the shipping room, engineering and sales departments before getting his first executive position...
Groups growing up in other colleges will be completely independent. "Harvard, in this case, in merely the sparkplug, giving the idea to other schools," Richardson stated. The local organization may, however, keep track of the number of signatures solicited nationally...